{"id":152747,"date":"2025-11-21T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152747\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:18:10","slug":"ive-watched-this-back-probably-a-thousand-times-ireland-hero-troy-parrott-basking-in-special-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152747\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve watched this back probably a thousand times\u2019 &#8211; Ireland hero Troy Parrott basking in \u2018special moment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Troy Parrott celebrates with the match ball in the dressing room\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cf0c6218-5893-4269-a624-47f052406384.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)\">Troy Parrott celebrates with the match ball in the dressing room<\/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)\">Troy Parrott has called on his Ireland team to bring the same \u201cfighting spirit\u201d into the World Cup play-offs in March after last Sunday\u2019s remarkable comeback victory in Hungary.<\/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 Dubliner\u2019s stunning hat-trick, capped off by his now-famous 96th-minute winner, completed Ireland\u2019s 3-2 comeback in Budapest and booked their ticket to the play-offs next March. Czechia await in the semi-final on Thursday March 26 and should Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s men progress, they will play the final at Lansdowne Road on the following Tuesday against either Denmark or North Macedonia, after the draw was completed yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott celebrates with the match ball in the dressing room Troy Parrott has called on his Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,4876],"class_list":["post-152747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152747","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=152747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}