{"id":341890,"date":"2026-03-12T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/341890\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:25:10","slug":"stephen-kenny-hails-brilliant-david-mcgoldrick-amid-speculation-of-shock-ireland-recall-for-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/341890\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Kenny hails \u2018brilliant\u2019 David McGoldrick amid speculation of shock Ireland recall for play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David McGoldrick last played for Ireland in the 2020 Euro play-off defeat to Slovakia. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5f0ad70f-8188-411c-8732-c81f6e5a0964.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)\">David McGoldrick last played for Ireland in the 2020 Euro play-off defeat to Slovakia. 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)\">Stephen Kenny believes former Ireland striker David McGoldrick would be a \u201cbrilliant person\u201d to bring into a dressing room amid speculation the 38-year-old will come out of international retirement for the World Cup play-offs later this month.<\/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)\">With the play-off semi-final against Czechia just two weeks away, Heimir Hallgrimsson is without Evan Ferguson \u2013 who had ankle surgery last Monday \u2013 while Adam Idah is a major doubt with a hamstring injury, leaving Ireland with just two fully fit strikers from the November camp in Troy Parrott and Johnny Kenny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David McGoldrick last played for Ireland in the 2020 Euro play-off defeat to Slovakia. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile Stephen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,4876,16489,38384],"class_list":["post-341890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor","tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc","tag-stephen-kenny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341890","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=341890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}