{"id":111642,"date":"2025-10-30T05:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111642\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:44:27","slug":"david-kelly-ireland-must-embrace-life-beyond-comfort-zone-on-return-to-european-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111642\/","title":{"rendered":"David Kelly: Ireland must embrace life beyond comfort zone on return to European elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Katie McCabe, left, and Abbie Larkin celebrate after the Uefa Women's Nations League A\/B promotion\/relegation play-off second leg in Leuven.  Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b1c16307-7df3-49cd-b5af-3bb0045ed43e.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)\">Katie McCabe, left, and Abbie Larkin celebrate after the Uefa Women&#8217;s Nations League A\/B promotion\/relegation play-off second leg in Leuven.  Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/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)\">One quickly learns the art of atonement in Leuven.<\/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)\">If you\u2019ve consumed a cup of strawberries drowning in chocolate, there\u2019s no going back. Or when you\u2019ve supped one too many of those devilish Leffe beers the monks started brewing there 800 years ago. Ireland were forced to confront their own moment of penitence at half-time on Tuesday night. They had trailed to a goal of such singular quality that it reminded all of Belgium\u2019s supposed superiority, as well as conceding another that served to highlight presumed Irish inadequacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie McCabe, left, and Abbie Larkin celebrate after the Uefa Women&#8217;s Nations League A\/B promotion\/relegation play-off second leg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8495,61,60,19002,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-111642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-david-kelly","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-katie-mccabe","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111642","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=111642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}