{"id":155911,"date":"2025-11-23T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155911\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:03:09","slug":"those-last-10-minutes-seem-like-a-dream-one-well-travelled-ireland-fans-journey-on-the-budapest-believe-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155911\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Those last 10 minutes seem like a dream\u2019 \u2013 one well-travelled Ireland fan\u2019s journey on the Budapest \u2018Believe\u2019 train"},"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\">\nA supporter\u2019s view of an unforgettable few days in Hungary, when the Boys in Green ended years of hurt on the road\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763928189_239_video.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)\">\u2018Those last ten minutes seem like a dream\u2019 \u2013 One Ireland fan\u2019s journey on the Budapest \u2018Believe\u2019 train<\/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)\">My name is Tony Considine and I am an addict. I got my first hit on June 18, 1994 in New Jersey when Ray Houghton lofted the ball over Gianluca Pagliuca in the Italian goal at Giants Stadium and I\u2019ve been chasing the thrill of it ever since.<\/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)\">That day was my introduction into the travails of following Ireland abroad, having been going to home games since I was nine years old in 1979. Euro \u201988 came too soon for a penniless student and, while working on the sites in London, I had to take in the magic of Italia \u201990 via the Irish bars of Kilburn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A supporter\u2019s view of an unforgettable few days in Hungary, when the Boys in Green ended years of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-155911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155911","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=155911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}