{"id":178851,"date":"2025-12-07T06:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178851\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:28:10","slug":"two-early-hours-kick-offs-on-cards-if-ireland-qualify-for-world-cup-next-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178851\/","title":{"rendered":"Two early hours kick-offs on cards if Ireland qualify for World Cup next summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum draws Mexico during the World Cup 2026 draw at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CUP-DRAW (888).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)\">Mexico&#8217;s President Claudia Sheinbaum draws Mexico during the World Cup 2026 draw at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC<\/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)\">Ireland\u2019s first World Cup game will be a 3am kickoff Irish time if Heimir Hallgrimsson&#8217;s side succeed in qualifying to face South Korea on the opening day of the competition.<\/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)\">FIFA have this evening confirmed the details of the fixture schedule for the tournament after taking 24 hours to work out the best kickoff times with respect to climate conditions and time difference for TV audience in the participating countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico&#8217;s President Claudia Sheinbaum draws Mexico during the World Cup 2026 draw at the John F Kennedy Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3264,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-178851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178851","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=178851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}