{"id":139989,"date":"2025-11-14T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139989\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:08:09","slug":"theres-a-lot-of-joy-colin-obrien-hails-ireland-u17s-as-focus-turns-to-world-cup-showdown-with-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139989\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s a lot of joy\u2019 \u2013 Colin O\u2019Brien hails Ireland U17s as focus turns to World Cup showdown with Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland players acknowledge their supporters after their victory in the Under-17 World Cup Round of 32 match against Canada at Aspire Zone in Doha, Qatar. Photo: Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3292107.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 players acknowledge their supporters after their victory in the Under-17 World Cup Round of 32 match against Canada at Aspire Zone in Doha, Qatar. 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 Under-17 boss Colin O\u2019Brien has hailed his players for holding their nerve in a nail-biting penalty shoot-out as they dumped Canada out of the World Cup to book their place in the last 16.<\/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 Young Boys in Green will now face Switzerland in Doha on Tuesday with a place in the final eight up for grabs, following this evening\u2019s remarkable 9-8 victory in the shoot-out, as Shamrock Rovers\u2019 Alex Noonan proved the hero by by denying Canada\u2019s tenth attempt from Elijah Roche to win it for his side, who are appearing at their maiden finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland players acknowledge their supporters after their victory in the Under-17 World Cup Round of 32 match against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4876],"class_list":["post-139989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139989","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=139989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}