{"id":361036,"date":"2026-03-23T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361036\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:11:09","slug":"joanna-byrne-hits-out-at-cold-underhand-move-as-drogheda-uniteds-us-owners-remove-her-from-clubs-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361036\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Byrne hits out at \u2018cold, underhand move\u2019 as Drogheda United\u2019s US owners remove her from club\u2019s board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Drogheda United's Ben Boycott and chairperson Joanna Byrne after the club's 2024 FAI Cup final win over Derry City at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/babaf522-4a7f-411f-ac1d-ec247b2721c1.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)\">Drogheda United&#8217;s Ben Boycott and chairperson Joanna Byrne after the club&#8217;s 2024 FAI Cup final win over Derry City at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Sinn F\u00e9in TD Joanna Byrne has hit back at the US-based owners of Drogheda United, following the announcement of their decision to remove her from the club\u2019s board.<\/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)\">Byrne labelled the actions by Drogheda\u2019s controlling Trivela group as \u201ca cold, underhand move, initiated in the dark of the night, which was planned and co-ordinated without any consultation with me\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drogheda United&#8217;s Ben Boycott and chairperson Joanna Byrne after the club&#8217;s 2024 FAI Cup final win over Derry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2049,14640,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-361036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-drogheda-united-fc","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361036","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=361036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}