{"id":135024,"date":"2025-11-12T02:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:08:11","slug":"theyre-a-credit-to-the-country-colin-obrien-lauds-his-players-as-ireland-set-for-world-cup-last-32-tie-with-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135024\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They&#8217;re a credit to the country\u2019 \u2013 Colin O\u2019Brien lauds his players as Ireland set for World Cup last-32 tie with Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland U-17 manager Colin O'Brien was proud of his side's performance. Photo: Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cece418f-ab85-4c03-851a-21504b388758.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)\">Ireland U-17 manager Colin O&#8217;Brien was proud of his side&#8217;s performance. Photo: Nikola Krstic\/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)\">Ireland U-17 boss Colin O\u2019Brien believes his side have been \u201ca credit to the country\u201d as they gear up for a first-ever World Cup last-32 tie.<\/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 Boys in Green earned a scoreless draw with Paraguay this afternoon to remain unbeaten and top their group on seven points. Next up is a meeting with Canada, who finished runners-up in a group that saw all four nations pick up four points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland U-17 manager Colin O&#8217;Brien was proud of his side&#8217;s performance. Photo: Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile Ireland U-17 boss Colin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-135024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135024","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=135024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}