{"id":290346,"date":"2026-02-10T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290346\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:34:09","slug":"every-time-i-looked-over-my-dad-was-about-to-cry-so-i-tried-to-avoid-eye-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290346\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every time I looked over my dad was about to cry so I tried to avoid eye contact\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Hickey was making his competitive debut for Bohemians at the Aviva Stadium - it was the largest crowd the Chicago native has ever played in front of. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dfcc04ab-4425-4abb-9a70-9962dff2818f.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)\">Patrick Hickey was making his competitive debut for Bohemians at the Aviva Stadium &#8211; it was the largest crowd the Chicago native has ever played in front of. Photo: Seb Daly\/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)\">Bohemians\u2019 Patrick Hickey says it was an \u201cunbelievable\u201d feeling to play at Lansdowne Road for the first time in his career as his new club kicked off the 2026 campaign with a derby draw against St Patrick\u2019s Athletic on Sunday.<\/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)\">Although the action on the pitch won\u2019t live long in the memory as the fixture ended scoreless for the third successive meeting, for Hickey, it was the largest crowd the Chicago native has ever played in front of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Hickey was making his competitive debut for Bohemians at the Aviva Stadium &#8211; it was the largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14645,42,43,4876,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-290346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bohemian-fc","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sean-oconnor","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290346","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=290346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}