{"id":165698,"date":"2025-11-29T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165698\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:33:09","slug":"i-accept-by-the-letter-of-the-law-that-i-had-put-my-hand-on-hannah-cain-ruesha-littlejohns-week-of-unfriendly-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165698\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I accept, by the letter of the law, that I had put my hand on Hannah Cain\u2019 \u2013 Ruesha Littlejohn\u2019s week of unfriendly fire"},"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\">Ireland play behind closed doors while public controversy assails veteran player\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruesha Littlejohn has been the subject of social media scrutiny since her tackle in Crystal Palace's League Cup clash with Leicester City's Hannah Cain. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3271677.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)\">Ruesha Littlejohn has been the subject of social media scrutiny since her tackle in Crystal Palace&#8217;s League Cup clash with Leicester City&#8217;s Hannah Cain. 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)\">With the grimmest of ironies, a second successive Irish friendly held behind closed doors has been overshadowed by an extraordinary reaction to a tackle.<\/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)\">Except this time, the incident, involving Irish midfielder Ruesha Littlejohn, has preceded their friendly against Hungary in Marbella on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland play behind closed doors while public controversy assails veteran player Ruesha Littlejohn has been the subject of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8495,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-165698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-david-kelly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165698","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=165698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}