{"id":728477,"date":"2026-01-29T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728477\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:44:35","slug":"northern-ireland-michael-oneill-reveals-why-january-moves-by-stars-get-his-seal-of-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728477\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland: Michael O\u2019Neill reveals why January moves by stars get his seal of approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NI striker Ronan Hale sealed a move to Gillingham from Ross County\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/979d4349-af93-421b-a77a-8f233860b9f1.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)\">NI striker Ronan Hale sealed a move to Gillingham from Ross County<\/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)\">Northern Ireland boss Michael O\u2019Neill has given a positive verdict on January moves by Paddy McNair, Jamie McDonnell, Callum Marshall and Ronan Hale.<\/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)\">Euro 2016 star McNair has joined promotion-chasing Championship side Hull City from San Diego FC, midfielder McDonnell has left Nottingham Forest for Oxford United via a successful loan spell at Mansfield Town, Hale is moving to Gillingham from Ross County and fellow striker Callum Marshall has gone on loan to German second tier side VFL Bochum from West Ham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NI striker Ronan Hale sealed a move to Gillingham from Ross County Northern Ireland boss Michael O\u2019Neill has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728478,"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-728477","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\/115978218061508431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728477","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=728477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}