{"id":359330,"date":"2026-03-22T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359330\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:06:09","slug":"i-could-feel-my-heart-pumping-commenator-darragh-maloney-on-calling-troy-parrotts-famous-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359330\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I could feel my heart pumping\u2019 \u2013\u00a0commenator Darragh Maloney on calling Troy Parrott\u2019s famous goal"},"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\">RT\u00c9 man says he\u2019s hoping for a repeat moment in Prague on Thursday\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RT\u00c9'S Darragh Maloney: \u201cIf you want to really torment yourself, put your name  into Google.\u201d  Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e7bb2fc1-8f40-45c6-b772-a222da2aa971.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)\">RT\u00c9&#8217;S Darragh Maloney: \u201cIf you want to really torment yourself, put your name  into Google.\u201d  Photo: Mark Condren<\/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 authentic reach of the Irish soccer team was evident in the voice of Darragh Maloney just after Troy Parrott scored his all-timer in Budapest last November. The RT\u00c9 commentator was standing in the commentary box in the Puskas Arena alongside Ray Houghton and calling one of the most high-wire qualifiers in Ireland\u2019s history.<\/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)\">Maloney grew up in Beaumont, a handful of miles from Parrott\u2019s childhood home in Buckingham Street on Dublin\u2019s northside. He\u2019s never met Parrott. But when the forward got a balletic touch to the ball to score that late winner, Maloney rhapsodised his name with a Dublin accent that shone stronger than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 man says he\u2019s hoping for a repeat moment in Prague on Thursday RT\u00c9&#8217;S Darragh Maloney: \u201cIf you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4173,112,44452],"class_list":["post-359330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sinead-kissane","tag-sports","tag-troy-parrott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359330","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=359330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}