{"id":145683,"date":"2025-11-18T03:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145683\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:17:15","slug":"aidan-fitzmaurice-the-two-men-credited-with-transforming-this-ireland-squad-to-make-the-unthinkable-become-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145683\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Fitzmaurice: The two men credited with transforming this Ireland squad to make the unthinkable become reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"S\u00e9amus Coleman celebrates Ireland's win over Hungary  in the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier at the Puskas Arena in Budapest. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ecb2b04c-34ce-4ebc-bcf5-70ca23a0238f.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)\">S\u00e9amus Coleman celebrates Ireland&#8217;s win over Hungary  in the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier at the Puskas Arena in Budapest. Photo: Ben McShane\/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)\">He\u2019s a significant character in one of the greatest films of all time but doesn\u2019t speak a word.<\/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)\">Vincenzo Pentangeli had a silent role in The Godfather II, where his mere presence in the courtroom as his brother, Frank, was about to give damning evidence against the Corleone family, was enough to persuade Frank to have a rethink and not testify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00e9amus Coleman celebrates Ireland&#8217;s win over Hungary in the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier at the Puskas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-145683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145683","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=145683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}