{"id":176891,"date":"2025-12-05T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:04:08","slug":"lopes-mcginty-and-brady-big-winners-at-soccer-writers-ireland-annual-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176891\/","title":{"rendered":"Lopes, McGinty and Brady big winners at Soccer Writers Ireland annual awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roberto Lopes of Shamrock Rovers recipient of the Soccer Writers Ireland 2024 Men's Personality of the Year Award\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sports3304521.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)\">Roberto Lopes of Shamrock Rovers recipient of the Soccer Writers Ireland 2024 Men&#8217;s Personality of the Year Award<\/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)\">Shamrock Rovers were the big winners at today\u2019s SSE Airtricity\/Soccer Writers Ireland annual awards ceremony with captain Roberto Lopes and goalkeeper Ed McGinty each taking home individual prizes.<\/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)\">After helping the Hoops to a first league and FAI Cup double since 1987 this year, Lopes was named 2025 Men\u2019s Personality of the Year, beating his manager Stephen Bradley and Shelbourne boss Joey O\u2019Brien in the voting process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto Lopes of Shamrock Rovers recipient of the Soccer Writers Ireland 2024 Men&#8217;s Personality of the Year Award&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4876],"class_list":["post-176891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176891","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=176891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}