{"id":325375,"date":"2026-03-02T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325375\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:08:11","slug":"aston-villa-leeds-and-sunderland-unveil-st-patricks-day-merchandise-collections-as-paul-mcgrath-takes-centre-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325375\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa, Leeds and Sunderland unveil St Patrick\u2019s Day merchandise collections as Paul McGrath takes centre stage"},"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\">Premier League clubs celebrating their Irish connections\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland legend Paul McGrath in a green Villa jersey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/88666433-ea28-45c2-9a29-a591d1e87808.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 legend Paul McGrath in a green Villa jersey<\/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)\">Aston Villa, Leeds United and Sunderland have paid homage to their Irish legends by releasing a \u2018St. Patrick&#8217;s Day merchandise collection\u2019, with Paul McGrath among those at the forefront of their publicity campaigns.<\/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)\">Ireland legend McGrath is revered by Villa fans after his memorable spell at the club between 1989 and 1996 and was given the nickname of \u2018God&#8217; by the club\u2019s fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League clubs celebrating their Irish connections Ireland legend Paul McGrath in a green Villa jersey Aston Villa,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15134,61,60,15140,1102,112,4039],"class_list":{"0":"post-325375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-leeds-united","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sunderland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325375","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=325375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}