{"id":309125,"date":"2026-02-21T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309125\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:28:12","slug":"i-havent-been-eating-or-sleeping-for-48-hours-kevin-doherty-opens-up-on-impact-of-drogheda-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309125\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I haven\u2019t been eating or sleeping for 48 hours\u2019 \u2013 Kevin Doherty opens up on impact of Drogheda tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Drogheda United manager Kevin Doherty and his players applaud toward their supporters at Oriel Park in Dundalk, Louth. Photo by Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sports3363164.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)\">Drogheda United manager Kevin Doherty and his players applaud toward their supporters at Oriel Park in Dundalk, Louth. Photo by Ben McShane\/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)\">Drogheda United manager Kevin Doherty has opened up on the impact of a damaging week for the club off the park and admitted that a quick resolution is required to avoid destroying the progress that has been made under his watch.<\/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 Boynesiders were in the news ahead of the Louth derby after co-chairperson Joanna Byrne revealed that the club\u2019s board \u2013 which is American dominated \u2013 had put pressure on her to resign for stating that Ireland should not play their Nations League games with Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drogheda United manager Kevin Doherty and his players applaud toward their supporters at Oriel Park in Dundalk, Louth.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,14640,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-309125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","9":"tag-drogheda-united-fc","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309125","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=309125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}