{"id":142033,"date":"2025-11-16T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142033\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:22:09","slug":"eamonn-sweeney-have-faith-in-heimir-hallgrimsson-he-deserves-to-stay-in-ireland-job-after-hungary-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142033\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamonn Sweeney: Have faith in Heimir Hallgrimsson \u2013 he deserves to stay in Ireland job after Hungary clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3291063.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)\">Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson. 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)\">Heimir Hallgrimsson has earned the right to stay on as Ireland manager no matter what happens on Sunday afternoon in Budapest.<\/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 of the finest performances in decades illustrated Ireland\u2019s improvement under their new boss. It\u2019s a gradual process. Thursday\u2019s fireworks notwithstanding, we can\u2019t be sure what\u2019ll happen on Sunday. The revival is real all the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile Heimir Hallgrimsson has earned the right to stay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49878,4700,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-142033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eamonn-sweeney","9":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142033","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=142033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}