{"id":155066,"date":"2025-11-23T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155066\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:55:08","slug":"it-was-amazing-for-me-as-a-foreigner-the-plane-was-like-a-pub-heimir-hallgrimsson-lifts-lid-on-world-cup-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155066\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was amazing for me as a foreigner, the plane was like a pub\u2019 \u2013 Heimir Hallgrimsson lifts lid on World Cup celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson celebrates after the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier victory over Hungary at Pusk\u00e1s Ar\u00e9na in Budapest. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1274680d-ce3f-4ea3-9257-834cdda3cf43.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)\">Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson celebrates after the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier victory 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)\">As Ireland feasted on Troy mania, supped from a cup brimming with a new-found love for the national team and had thoughts of a jaunt to the USA next year that would be giddier than the most joyful of J1s, where was the man who had orchestrated it all?<\/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)\">If researchers for the Late Late Show, or agents offering celebrity endorsements, spent a few days trying to track down Heimir Hallgrimsson and offer him whatever he wanted to turn up and chat, or heartily endorse their event or product, they drew a blank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson celebrates after the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier victory over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1113,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-155066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-fai","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155066","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=155066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}