{"id":146331,"date":"2025-11-18T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146331\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:12:10","slug":"irelands-troy-parrot-conor-mckeon-troys-story-has-rekindled-an-old-love-affair-for-the-disconnected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146331\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Troy Parrot &#8211; Conor McKeon: Troy\u2019s story has rekindled an old love affair for the disconnected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Troy Parrott of Republic at the final whistle of the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier win over Hungary at Pusk\u00e1s Ar\u00e9na in Budapest. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/93d32264-ed68-4f28-8ffa-c27896bc277e.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&#8217;s Troy Parrott of Republic at the final whistle of the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier win over Hungary at Pusk\u00e1s Ar\u00e9na in Budapest. 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)\">The only tedious bits of the last 48 tingly hours are the various pontifications from our most erudite citizens, stroking their chins on social media and announcing that the international football team are, in fact, the one entity that unites our nation.<\/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)\">Bigger than rugby. Bigger than Gaelic games. These are the same sort who might tell you that bananas are a great source of potassium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Troy Parrott of Republic at the final whistle of the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7277,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-146331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146331","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=146331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}