{"id":344576,"date":"2026-03-13T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344576\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:55:09","slug":"my-schedule-is-free-david-mcgoldrick-admits-he-would-reconsider-ireland-return-for-world-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344576\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My schedule is free\u2019 \u2013 David McGoldrick admits he would \u2018reconsider\u2019 Ireland return for World Cup playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David McGoldrick\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b8847290-9420-4856-b8a2-70521331d3d6.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<\/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)\">Former Ireland striker David McGoldrick admits he would \u201creconsider\u201d coming out of international retirement if required for the World Cup playoffs 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)\">The Barnsley player has been in electric form of late with 11 goals in his last 12 League One games, with his scoring streak leading to recent speculation about an Ireland recall for the semi-final showdown against Czechia on Thursday week, where a victory would book a home final spot against Denmark\/North Macedonia five days later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David McGoldrick Former Ireland striker David McGoldrick admits he would \u201creconsider\u201d coming out of international retirement if required&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4876],"class_list":["post-344576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344576","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=344576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}