{"id":155215,"date":"2025-11-23T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155215\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:11:11","slug":"eamonn-sweeney-finally-we-can-look-forward-but-ireland-need-another-miracle-to-realise-world-cup-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155215\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamonn Sweeney: Finally we can look forward \u2013 but Ireland need another miracle to realise World Cup dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Troy Parrott with the match ball after his hat-trick against Hungary. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763892671_589_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 with the match ball after his hat-trick against Hungary. 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)\">I\u2019ve got some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that Ireland will need a minor miracle to qualify from the World Cup play-offs. The good news is that they worked a major miracle to get here.<\/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)\">Thursday\u2019s draw leaves Ireland\u2019s fate in their own hands. If the team plays as well as they did in the last two games, they can make it to the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott with the match ball after his hat-trick against Hungary. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile I\u2019ve got some bad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49878,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-155215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eamonn-sweeney","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155215","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=155215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}