{"id":357346,"date":"2026-03-21T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357346\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:14:10","slug":"finding-heimir-hallgrimsson-travelling-to-icelands-vestmannaeyjar-islands-to-discover-the-origin-story-of-the-ireland-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357346\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Heimir Hallgrimsson \u2013\u00a0Travelling to\u00a0Iceland\u2019s Vestmannaeyjar islands to discover the origin\u00a0story of the Ireland manager"},"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\">\nThe Irish Independent travelled to a distant part of Iceland to find out how a windswept volcanic island forged the career and the character of the Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774073650_893_video.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)\">Finding Heimir: An exclusive Irish Independent documentary<\/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)\">Early next week, a 71-year-old man living in Heimaey, the only inhabited island in Vestmannaeyjar, an archipelago off the south coast of Iceland, will go looking for his Irish tricolour.<\/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)\">It\u2019s all part of Einar Hallgrimsson\u2019s pre-match routine. The flagpole at the front of a house, that is just a three-minute drive from the handful of shops and restaurants that service the 4,300 or so residents of a community built around a port, has become an advertisement for the exploits of Heimaey\u2019s most famous son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Independent travelled to a distant part of Iceland to find out how a windswept volcanic island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,4700,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-357346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357346","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=357346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}