{"id":10963,"date":"2025-09-09T23:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10963\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:20:13","slug":"michael-noonan-makes-history-with-crucial-winner-for-ireland-u-21s-against-andorra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10963\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Noonan makes history with crucial winner for Ireland U-21s against Andorra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">European U-21 Championship qualifier: Ireland 1, Andorra 0\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Noonan (right) celebrates with teammate Trent Kone-Doherty after scoring for Ireland during the  European U21 Championship qualifier against Andorra at Tallaght Stadium. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7c69eb54-07ea-4acd-8992-4d487b4910b1.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 Noonan (right) celebrates with teammate Trent Kone-Doherty after scoring for Ireland during the  European U21 Championship qualifier against Andorra at Tallaght Stadium. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/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)\">On a night when the Irish senior team suffered a disastrous result to a bottom-seeded side, for 65 minutes this threatened to be a similar result for the Ireland U-21s. But Michael Noonan had other ideas.<\/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)\">Jim Crawford\u2019s men found themselves struggling to break down the minnows for much of the first hour of this Tallaght Stadium clash, but just one minute after entering a pitch he knows well, the teenager blasted the young Boys in Green ahead with a fabulous strike from 25 yards, relieving all of the tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European U-21 Championship qualifier: Ireland 1, Andorra 0 Michael Noonan (right) celebrates with teammate Trent Kone-Doherty after scoring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4876,11113],"class_list":["post-10963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor","tag-shamrock-rovers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963","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=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}