{"id":728189,"date":"2026-01-29T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728189\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:38:14","slug":"northern-ireland-michael-oneill-on-why-hed-be-willing-to-stay-on-beyond-current-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728189\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland: Michael O\u2019Neill on why he\u2019d be willing to stay on beyond current deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael O'Neill says he relishes the chance to lead up-and-coming Northern Ireland squad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/tyImages-2247190837.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)\">Michael O&#8217;Neill says he relishes the chance to lead up-and-coming Northern Ireland squad<\/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)\">Michael O\u2019Neill has revealed that he would be open to staying on as Northern Ireland manager beyond his current Irish FA contract insisting this is the most satisfying job he has had in his career.<\/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)\">Appointed for a second time in December 2022, O\u2019Neill, having previously inspired the country to Euro 2016 in his first spell, was given a long-term deal by the IFA and handed the chance to take Northern Ireland to Euro 2024, the 2026 World Cup and Euro 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael O&#8217;Neill says he relishes the chance to lead up-and-coming Northern Ireland squad Michael O\u2019Neill has revealed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[31133,1144,8538,30649,16,15],"class_list":["post-728189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-michael-oneill","tag-northern-ireland","tag-northern-ireland-football-team","tag-steven-beacom","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115977486739728563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728189","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=728189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}