{"id":175448,"date":"2025-12-04T21:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175448\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:45:09","slug":"aaron-connollys-rebirth-and-the-manchester-united-rising-star-inside-leyton-orients-irish-connections-ahead-of-fa-cup-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175448\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Connolly\u2019s rebirth and the Manchester United rising star \u2013 inside Leyton Orient\u2019s Irish connections ahead of FA Cup clash"},"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\">\u200b<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aaron Connolly is trying to resurrect his career at Leyton Orient who play Salford City in the FA Cup on Friday night. Photo: Pete Norton\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0a5caaa8-6c33-4ce4-bcca-bf3497963c78.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)\">Aaron Connolly is trying to resurrect his career at Leyton Orient who play Salford City in the FA Cup on Friday night. Photo: Pete Norton\/Getty Images<\/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 the nation basks in the afterglow of Troy Parrott\u2019s heroics, it\u2019s been a little over six years since a different Irish striker was dominating discussions.<\/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)\">In late 2019, Aaron Connolly announced himself on the Premier League stage with a brace to help Brighton defeat Spurs, an afternoon when the Galway native became the first Irish teenager to score a double at that level since Robbie Keane in 1999 (a feat since matched by Evan Ferguson).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200b Aaron Connolly is trying to resurrect his career at Leyton Orient who play Salford City in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[72927,61,60,4876,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-175448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-fa-cup","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sean-oconnor","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175448","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=175448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}