{"id":365733,"date":"2026-03-26T06:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365733\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:23:09","slug":"ireland-v-czechia-world-cup-qualifier-army-of-parrott-troopers-head-for-prague-including-strikers-proud-granny-josie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/365733\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Czechia World Cup qualifier: Army of Parrott troopers head for Prague \u2013 including striker\u2019s proud granny, Josie"},"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\">Colourful costumes and high hopes in Dublin Airport ahead of crunch World Cup qualifier\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mick, Alfie, Lucy, Frankie, Luke and Williams Greene from Santry making their was from Dublin airport to the World Cup qualifier in Prague.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0edff052-4408-4b0a-87ae-aed2c0644bc1.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)\">Mick, Alfie, Lucy, Frankie, Luke and Williams Greene from Santry making their was from Dublin airport to the World Cup qualifier in Prague.<\/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)\">With hope in their hearts and wearing colourful outfits for the occasion, Ireland fans flew out of Dublin Airport in their droves yesterday to support Ireland ahead of their World Cup play-off semi-final against Czechia tonight.<\/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)\">Scoring sensation Troy Parrott was the name on many lips, and indeed his own family have now made their way to Europe to catch trains and buses and any means of transport necessary to get to Prague for the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colourful costumes and high hopes in Dublin Airport ahead of crunch World Cup qualifier Mick, Alfie, Lucy, Frankie,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13975,61,60,43,44452,102024],"class_list":{"0":"post-365733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-conor-feehan","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-troy-parrott","13":"tag-world-cup-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365733","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=365733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}