{"id":188272,"date":"2025-12-12T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188272\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:06:07","slug":"dunfermline-athletic-neil-lennon-will-miss-queens-park-game-after-death-of-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188272\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunfermline Athletic: Neil Lennon will miss Queen’s Park game after death of father"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Lennon will miss Dunfermline Athletic’s visit to Glasgow to face Queen’s Park on Saturday following the death of the team manager’s father.<\/p>\n

“Everyone at Dunfermline Athletic is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Gerry Lennon,” the Scottish Championship club announced on X.<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to Neil and his family at this difficult time.<\/p>\n

“Neil will be home in Northern Ireland with his family and will not be in attendance at this weekend’s fixture vs Queen’s Park. <\/p>\n

“Assistant Manager Iain Brunskill will lead the side for this weekend’s match along with assistant coach Kevin McDonald.”<\/p>\n

Former Celtic, Hibernian and Bolton Wanderers boss Lennon is serving a four-match touchline ban<\/a> and would not have been in the dugout at the City Stadium.<\/p>\n

Dunfermline currently lie fifth in the Championship, nine points above second-bottom Queen’s Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Lennon will miss Dunfermline Athletic’s visit to Glasgow to face Queen’s Park on Saturday following the death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-188272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188272","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=188272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}