{"id":353282,"date":"2026-03-18T22:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/353282\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:16:12","slug":"the-key-decisions-hanging-over-heimir-hallgrimssons-squad-announcement-for-irelands-world-cup-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/353282\/","title":{"rendered":"The key decisions hanging over Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s squad announcement for Ireland\u2019s World Cup play-off"},"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\">Injuries and suspensions are forcing the manager\u2019s hand for a tenure-defining camp\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Could Barnsley's David McGoldrick earn a recall five years after retiring from international football?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fb13b247-233b-49d1-b356-cfa97e9e6e6c.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)\">Could Barnsley&#8217;s David McGoldrick earn a recall five years after retiring from international football?<\/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)\">Eight days to go until Prague. For Heimir Hallgrimsson, his players, and the thousands of Irish fans set to descend on the Czech capital, it\u2019s all starting to feel very real. Ahead of Thursday\u2019s squad announcement, we run through the various calls Hallgrimsson faces as he enters a tenure-defining camp.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injuries and suspensions are forcing the manager\u2019s hand for a tenure-defining camp Could Barnsley&#8217;s David McGoldrick earn a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,4876,102024],"class_list":["post-353282","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-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353282","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=353282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}