{"id":40390,"date":"2025-09-03T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40390\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:48:09","slug":"its-not-been-the-easiest-of-times-diogo-jotas-death-foremost-in-caoimhin-kellehers-mind-after-emotional-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40390\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not been the easiest of times\u2019 \u2013 Diogo Jota\u2019s death foremost in Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher\u2019s mind after emotional summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ireland No 1 says players must put pressure on themselves to make it to World Cup\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher with players from Manorhamilton Rangers during a Republic of Ireland training session at the FAI National Training Centre in Abbotstown, Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3226445.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\"> Goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher with players from Manorhamilton Rangers during a Republic of Ireland training session at the FAI National Training Centre in Abbotstown, Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Facing out into a room of reporters, microphones and cameras is far from Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher\u2019s natural habitat. The last line of defence on a football pitch is where he feels more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But, in the year when he turns 27, Kelleher is making that transition from one for the future to the man for the present, with his departure from Liverpool to become an established Premier League first-choice goalkeeper at Brentford reflecting the new maturity of his standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland No 1 says players must put pressure on themselves to make it to World Cup Goalkeeper Caoimhin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2721,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-40390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}