{"id":289808,"date":"2026-02-10T03:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289808\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T03:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:14:11","slug":"fai-in-talks-about-ireland-playing-june-friendly-against-canada-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289808\/","title":{"rendered":"FAI in talks about Ireland playing June friendly against Canada in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c4ca104f-e71c-4f6c-aa31-1f7565bee034.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)\">Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson<\/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)\">World Cup co-hosts Canada have held talks with the FAI about Ireland providing the opposition for a Montreal friendly in June \u2013 a fixture that is being discussed as an option regardless of whether Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s side qualify for the tournament or not.<\/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)\">Canada need to find opposition for a home friendly in Montreal on June 5 or June 6 with a game against World Cup newcomers Uzbekistan already pencilled in for Edmonton on June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson World Cup co-hosts Canada have held talks with the FAI about Ireland providing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[289,3264,1113,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-289808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-canada","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289808","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=289808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}