{"id":277859,"date":"2026-02-03T03:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277859\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:09:11","slug":"irish-transfer-news-johnny-kenny-eyes-promotion-after-sealing-loan-move-to-bolton-sammie-szmodics-swaps-ipswich-for-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277859\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish transfer news: Johnny Kenny eyes promotion after sealing loan move to Bolton; Sammie Szmodics swaps Ipswich for Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Johnny Kenny has joined Bolton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a4269245-52e2-4cd8-856c-20ab3d07f32d.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)\">Johnny Kenny has joined Bolton<\/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 international Johnny Kenny says he aims to help his new club, Bolton Wanderers, gain promotion after he sealed his loan move from Celtic.<\/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)\">While there was interest from German side Schalke among others, Celtic and Kenny&#8217;s advisors have agreed on a spell in England as he joins promotion-chasing Bolton on loan until the end of the season. He signed a four-year deal with Celtic last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Kenny has joined Bolton Ireland international Johnny Kenny says he aims to help his new club, Bolton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-277859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277859","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=277859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}