{"id":145212,"date":"2025-11-17T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145212\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:19:12","slug":"ill-finish-my-contract-lets-do-that-first-heimir-hallgrimsson-happy-to-bide-time-on-new-deal-talks-after-hungary-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145212\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ll finish my contract, let\u2019s do that first\u2019 \u2013 Heimir Hallgrimsson happy to bide time on new deal talks after Hungary heroics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson celebrates. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/d1606d1f-cb10-45cb-99a5-ad6b39ef4917.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 head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson celebrates. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/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 indicated that he could be happy to wait until after the World Cup play-offs to hold discussions about his future.<\/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 Icelander\u2019s deal ends when Ireland\u2019s interest in the competition finishes and all parties were braced for the possibility of change as Hallgrimsson\u2019s side entered this week with an outside chance of staying alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson celebrates. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile Heimir Hallgrimsson has indicated that he could be happy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3264,42,4700,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-145212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145212","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=145212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}