{"id":462687,"date":"2026-05-01T05:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462687\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:22:20","slug":"sean-oconnor-who-are-the-fringe-players-in-the-murcia-mix-as-post-prague-life-looms-for-heimir-hallgrimssons-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462687\/","title":{"rendered":"Se\u00e1n O\u2019Connor: Who are the fringe players in the Murcia mix as post-Prague life looms for Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s Ireland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson after his side's defeat on penalties to Czechia in the World Cup play-off. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2a6ce234-b975-45a1-9ddf-3e53d506784f.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)\">Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson after his side&#8217;s defeat on penalties to Czechia in the World Cup play-off. Photo: 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)\">For Ireland, life post-Prague begins next week as on Tuesday, Heimir Hallgrimsson will name his squad for next month\u2019s training camp in Spain. The trip to Murcia will conclude with a friendly against Grenada, with the Icelander set to run the rule over some fringe and younger players with a view to the road to Euro 2028.<\/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)\">With the Premier League approaching the business end of the season and the Championship and League One play-offs soon coming into view, Hallgrimsson is set to call upon players from outside that cohort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson after his side&#8217;s defeat on penalties to Czechia in the World Cup play-off.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,17065,19,17,2723,132],"class_list":["post-462687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eire","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-oconnor","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116497648736496419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462687","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=462687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}