{"id":566532,"date":"2025-11-13T00:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566532\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:35:22","slug":"northern-ireland-football-patrick-kelly-reminded-me-of-robbie-keane-when-growing-up-reveals-ruaidhri-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566532\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Patrick Kelly reminded me of Robbie Keane when growing up, reveals Ruaidhri Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Kelly is hoping to make his senior Northern Ireland debut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tyImages-2240617567.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Patrick Kelly is hoping to make his senior Northern Ireland debut<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Coleraine manager Ruaidhr\u00ed Higgins has reflected on the time a young Patrick Kelly reminded him of former Tottenham and Republic of Ireland hero Robbie Keane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 21-year-old was rewarded with his first senior Northern Ireland call-up for the final World Cup qualifying double-header this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Kelly is hoping to make his senior Northern Ireland debut Coleraine manager Ruaidhr\u00ed Higgins has reflected on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[29307,8544,1144,8538,8541,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-566532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-coleraine-fc","9":"tag-graham-luney","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","12":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115539590031549070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}