{"id":293709,"date":"2026-02-12T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293709\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:24:09","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-ireland-braced-for-nations-league-draw-and-a-possible-israel-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293709\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: Ireland braced for Nations League draw \u2013 and a possible Israel dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson with his assistant John O'Shea after winning the Nations League play-off against Bulgaria last year. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3084943.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 boss Heimir Hallgrimsson with his assistant John O&#8217;Shea after winning the Nations League play-off against Bulgaria last year. 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)\">In a world where Troy Parrott does not make a perfectly-timed run into a Budapest penalty area, this evening\u2019s gathering in Brussels would be laying out the roadmap for the Irish international year.<\/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 Nations League draw is important business for those teams without an interest in the World Cup, because it lets them know the opponents for their next competitive fixture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson with his assistant John O&#8217;Shea after winning the Nations League play-off against Bulgaria last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,4700,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-293709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","9":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293709","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=293709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}