{"id":149932,"date":"2025-11-20T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149932\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:11:10","slug":"ireland-await-their-fate-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149932\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland await their fate \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Hello and welcome to live coverage of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\">World Cup<\/a> playoff draw, which involves the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a>. It takes place at 12pm in Zurich. Ireland are in pot 3 for the draw, so their potential opponents are Poland, Wales, Czech Republic and Slovakia in pot 2.<\/p>\n<p>Pot 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Pot 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Poland, Wales, Czech Republic, Slovakia<\/p>\n<p>Pot 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Republic of Ireland, Albania, Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina and Kosovo<\/p>\n<p>Pot 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Romania, Sweden, North Macedonia, Northern Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Pot 2 plays pot 3 in the draw, with Pot 1 playing Pot 4 in the playoff semi-finals. The higher ranked pot is home for the first game, so Ireland will be away to one of the four teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The winner of the games go into the playoff final for the four spots. In Ireland\u2019s case, they will play the winner of the match between Pot 1 and 4. A draw will also be conducted to determine which semi-final winner is to have home advantage for the final. All games \u2013 semi-finals and finals \u2013 will be single-leg knockout matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello and welcome to live coverage of the 2026 World Cup playoff draw, which involves the Republic of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,1842,4018],"class_list":["post-149932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149932","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=149932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}