{"id":344989,"date":"2026-03-13T23:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344989\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:21:13","slug":"david-mcgoldrick-would-reconsider-ireland-retirement-if-call-comes-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344989\/","title":{"rendered":"David McGoldrick would reconsider Ireland retirement if call comes \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Barnsley striker David McGoldrick has said he would \u201creconsider\u201d his international retirement should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a> call on him ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\">World Cup<\/a> playoff against the Czech Republic in a fortnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 38-year-old former Republic of Ireland international has been in fine form for his club, scoring 13 goals in the League One so far this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Speculation has mounted that McGoldrick may be in line for a recall ahead of the game in Prague on March 26th after it was confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/evan-ferguson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/evan-ferguson\/\">Evan Ferguson<\/a>\u2019s season is over after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/03\/13\/evan-ferguson-can-come-back-stronger-says-brighton-manager-fabian-hurzeler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/03\/13\/evan-ferguson-can-come-back-stronger-says-brighton-manager-fabian-hurzeler\/\">21-year-old underwent ankle surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Despite calling time on his international career in November 2020, McGoldrick said he has \u201chad a lot of messages\u201d from fans about his potential return to the international squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI looked at my Instagram the other day and I\u2019ve got Ireland flags everywhere saying \u2018come home unc\u2019,\u201d he told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said he would reconsider his international retirement, adding: \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening. I know there\u2019s lots of injuries, and I don\u2019t know. I haven\u2019t heard anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, he added: \u201cI don\u2019t really want to go too deep in it. I\u2019ve been watching as a fan ever since I retired from 2020 I think it was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI\u2019m here (at Barnsley), I\u2019m scoring goals. I\u2019m just concentrating on scoring for Barnsley at the minute and what will be will be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barnsley striker David McGoldrick has said he would \u201creconsider\u201d his international retirement should Republic of Ireland manager Heimir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,1842],"class_list":["post-344989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344989","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=344989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}