{"id":137172,"date":"2025-11-13T07:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137172\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:39:17","slug":"cristiano-ronaldos-irish-connections-real-madrid-debut-in-tallaght-roy-keanes-admiration-and-breaking-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137172\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s Irish connections \u2013 Real Madrid debut in Tallaght, Roy Keane\u2019s admiration and breaking our hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo practices his hurling skills during a special training session ahead of making his debut for the Spanish giants against Shamrock Rovers in 2009. Photo: David Maher\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7622a596-779a-4cd6-9d78-052c41b9d20d.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)\">Real Madrid&#8217;s Cristiano Ronaldo practices his hurling skills during a special training session ahead of making his debut for the Spanish giants against Shamrock Rovers in 2009. Photo: David Maher\/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)\">Thursday night may well be the final time Cristiano Ronaldo plays on Irish soil.<\/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 sold-out World Cup qualifier will be the Portuguese legend\u2019s seventh international against the Boys in Green since his first meeting in February 2005, a time when the majority of the current Ireland squad were still in primary school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid&#8217;s Cristiano Ronaldo practices his hurling skills during a special training session ahead of making his debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15561,42,4700,917,43,2888,271,4876,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-137172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cristiano-ronaldo","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-portugal","14":"tag-roy-keane","15":"tag-sean-oconnor","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137172","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=137172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}