{"id":30292,"date":"2025-09-19T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30292\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:30:10","slug":"aidan-fitzmaurice-next-week-could-be-even-more-bruising-for-the-fai-than-the-awfulness-of-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30292\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Fitzmaurice: Next week could be even more bruising for the FAI than the awfulness of Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Talking Point\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FAI chief executive David Courell is facing some tough questions. Photo: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/61d7ec21-55ff-451e-8a53-17e47125b64a.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)\">FAI chief executive David Courell is facing some tough questions. Photo: Tyler Miller\/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)\">For those who live in FAI-land, this should be the quiet spell, time to breathe. With the nightmare scenes of Yerevan put aside, there\u2019s still a few weeks to go before the next international camp for the men\u2019s senior team, by the end of which that tenuous grip on World Cup qualification could be obliterated.<\/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)\">There\u2019s also a gap to the next women\u2019s international window, which included a showcase Aviva Stadium date with Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talking Point FAI chief executive David Courell is facing some tough questions. Photo: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile For those who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,1113,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-30292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292","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=30292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}