{"id":146822,"date":"2025-11-18T18:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146822\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:23:14","slug":"what-theyve-done-for-the-country-is-incredible-colin-obrien-hails-impact-of-ireland-u-17s-as-swiss-kill-off-world-cup-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146822\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What they\u2019ve done for the country is incredible\u2019 \u2013 Colin O\u2019Brien hails impact of Ireland U-17s as Swiss kill off World Cup dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018Younger people see images of Ireland that is not the Ireland I know on TV sometimes. This is the Ireland I know\u2019 says Ireland boss\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Jaden Umeh is consoled by head coach Colin O'Brien and Switzerland's Mladen Mijajlovic during the 2025 U-17 World Cup round of 16 match at Aspire Zone in Doha, Qatar. Photo: Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3295859.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 Jaden Umeh is consoled by head coach Colin O&#8217;Brien and Switzerland&#8217;s Mladen Mijajlovic during the 2025 U-17 World Cup round of 16 match 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)\">Colin O\u2019Brien says he\u2019s proud of the Ireland U-17 group who have exited the World Cup finals in Qatar with a 3-1 loss to Switzerland as he insists what they have done in the tournament for the country is bigger than just sport.<\/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)\">It\u2019s the Swiss who advance to the quarter-finals as they came out on top with a superb second-half display, following an even first-half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Younger people see images of Ireland that is not the Ireland I know on TV sometimes. This is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-146822","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\/146822","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=146822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}