{"id":207803,"date":"2025-12-24T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207803\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:47:09","slug":"more-goals-a-dance-partner-and-a-bomb-squad-an-a-to-z-of-all-i-want-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207803\/","title":{"rendered":"More goals, a dance partner and a bomb squad \u2013 an A to Z of \u2018All I want for Christmas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Troy Parrott celebrates with Ireland teammates after the World Cup Qualifier win over Hungary at Puskas Arena in Budapest. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/803bc1aa-81f6-4b6f-ae13-898d6a63f0c8.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)\">Troy Parrott celebrates with Ireland teammates after the World Cup Qualifier win over Hungary at Puskas Arena in Budapest. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">A is for Andy Farrell: \u201cDear Santa, all I want for Christmas is a new front row, a one-tonne scrum, a bomb squad if I\u2019m extra good, and a solemn promise that I\u2019ll never again to subjected to a match that involves either Rassie Erasmus or Matthew Carley. Speaking of which, please don\u2019t send any more cards \u2026 \u201d<\/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)\">B is for Ben Stokes: \u201cGreetings from a bunker Down Under. Can you please drop off a gift hamper at the MCG, but make sure it gets there before the end of day two or it might be too late. Preferably to include the following: a straight bat, a fake urn, a \u2018Bazball\u2019 obituary and a 12-inch remix of Ashes to Ashes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott celebrates with Ireland teammates after the World Cup Qualifier win over Hungary at Puskas Arena in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7070,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-207803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-frank-roche","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207803","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=207803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}