{"id":201349,"date":"2025-12-20T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201349\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:41:10","slug":"shamrock-rovers-boss-stephen-bradley-reveals-sadness-over-stephen-mcphails-departure-as-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201349\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamrock Rovers boss Stephen Bradley reveals \u2018sadness\u2019 over Stephen McPhail\u2019s departure as sporting director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stephen McPhail has stepped away from his role as Shamrock Rovers sporting director\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54b2b366-95d1-44d7-b6e2-b11478e4140f.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)\">Stephen McPhail has stepped away from his role as Shamrock Rovers sporting director<\/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)\">Stephen McPhail is leaving his post as sporting director of Shamrock Rovers.<\/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)\">The 46-year-old has opted to walk away from the role after nine successful years in Tallaght where he worked closely with Stephen Bradley; the closeness of their relationship was highlighted by the fact that McPhail would likely have gone to Lincoln as part of the package if the Rovers boss had accepted a 2022 approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen McPhail has stepped away from his role as Shamrock Rovers sporting director Stephen McPhail is leaving his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3264,61,60,11113,112],"class_list":["post-201349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201349","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=201349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}