{"id":3372,"date":"2025-09-06T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/3372\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:01:06","slug":"republic-of-ireland-kick-off-world-cup-2026-qualifying-campaign-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/3372\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland kick off World Cup 2026 qualifying campaign tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"253\" data-end=\"375\">The Republic of Ireland will hope to get their bid to qualify for the 2026 World Cup off to a strong start this evening.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"443\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson\u2019s side welcome Hungary to the Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"594\">Captain Nathan Collins says the squad are mentally prepared for the challenge and believes an early setback won\u2019t completely derail their campaign:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"252\">&#8220;It is a sprint, but it\u2019s a long sprint and a lot can change, so if we do have a setback, it\u2019s not over \u2014 it\u2019s not fully over.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"336\">&#8220;If something doesn\u2019t go your way, you can still get yourself back into the race.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"531\">&#8220;We have experienced some setbacks as a group before, which we didn\u2019t like and weren\u2019t happy with. We want to learn from that and put it right, so getting off to a good start helps everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off at the Aviva Stadium is at 7:45pm.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with all the latest news on our website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beat102103.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Beat102103.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland will hope to get their bid to qualify for the 2026 World Cup off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4018],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","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=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}