{"id":138905,"date":"2025-11-14T05:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138905\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:32:10","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-how-ireland-ripped-up-the-script-against-portugal-to-earn-their-shot-at-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138905\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: How Ireland ripped up the script against Portugal to earn their shot at glory"},"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\">\nCristiano Ronaldo\u2019s red card should not dominate the Irish perspective of an unexpected evening of joy in Dublin\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dara O'Shea (left) and Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher of Ireland celebrate the win at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/63ca2a08-0ae3-4c2e-9953-56f4600316be.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)\">Dara O&#8217;Shea (left) and Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher of Ireland celebrate the win at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/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)\">To keep the dream alive, Ireland enjoyed an evening that challenged the boundaries of reality. Beating Portugal to give every home player \u2013 apart from Lille survivor S\u00e9amus Coleman \u2013 the best moment of their international careers is one thing.<\/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)\">But to do so with a degree of comfort on the scoreboard that allowed a few traffic-averse natives to leave early brought an epic Ballsbridge evening into surreal territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s red card should not dominate the Irish perspective of an unexpected evening of joy in Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15561,3264,4700,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-138905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138905","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=138905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}