{"id":56109,"date":"2025-09-10T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56109\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:01:11","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-heimir-hallgrimsson-braced-for-backlash-with-little-light-at-the-end-of-the-irish-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56109\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: Heimir Hallgrimsson braced for backlash with little light at the end of the Irish tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Time running out? Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson during the World Cup qualifying clash with Armenia at Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium in Yerevan. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3234593.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)\">Time running out? Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson during the World Cup qualifying clash with Armenia at Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium in Yerevan. 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)\">In an alcove off the corridor leading out of the press room in the Republican Stadium, Heimir Hallgrimsson spoke softly in his attempt to discuss the horror of what had just unfolded, his voice temporarily drowned out by the sound of applause greeting the arrival of his Armenian counterpart Yegishe Melikyan.<\/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)\">This had shades of Cyprus 2006, a debacle christened the nightmare in Nicosia that will always be etched in the mind of those present. Cypriot coach Angelos Anastasiadis arrived into his press conference dressed in black because he was still mourning a previous defeat that had put him under pressure before his team scored five goals against a visiting team that included top Premier League players like Robbie Keane, Richard Dunne, John O\u2019Shea and Damien Duff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time running out? Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson during the World Cup qualifying clash with Armenia at Vazgen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,2721,18,13,14,6,17065,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-56109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56109","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=56109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}