{"id":107142,"date":"2025-10-27T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/107142\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:43:08","slug":"michael-duffy-should-be-considered-for-ireland-squad-insists-derry-boss-tiernan-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/107142\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Duffy should be considered for Ireland squad, insists Derry boss Tiernan Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Duffy celebrates Derry City's win over Shamrock Rovers on Sunday. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cd9d8dbd-8779-4300-9d6f-44a457c638a0.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)\">Michael Duffy celebrates Derry City&#8217;s win over Shamrock Rovers on Sunday. Photo: Seb Daly\/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)\">Derry City boss Tiernan Lynch has restated his call that their in-form wide player Michael Duffy be considered for an Ireland call-up.<\/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)\">The 31-year-old has been the key figure for City this season as they secured a top-three finish for the season with Sunday\u2019s 2-1 win at home to league leaders and champions-elect Shamrock Rovers. Duffy\u2019s international career never took off even though he went through the process of switching allegiance from Northern Ireland to the Republic but Lynch says Duffy can break in and also do even better in terms of domestic form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Duffy celebrates Derry City&#8217;s win over Shamrock Rovers on Sunday. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile Derry City boss Tiernan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,14646,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-107142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-derry-city","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}