{"id":367661,"date":"2026-03-27T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367661\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:42:11","slug":"irelands-world-cup-dreams-end-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367661\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s World Cup dreams end in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmfm.ie\/news\/sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c62add75ffd.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Ireland will have a lot of regrets, having some so close to winning the tie in regulation time&#8230;\n        <\/p>\n<p>It was a case of one that got away for Ireland, after their World Cup dreams were shattered by Thursday night&#8217;s penalty shoot-out defeat to Czechia in Prague..<br \/>It should never have really come down to spot kicks after Ireland had led 2-0 during the first half of regulation time &#8211; but they gave away a bad penalty, before failing to give themselves some breathing space with a third goal during a dominant first half<\/p>\n<p>Then 3 mins from the end of normal time, the Czechs struck for their equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>In the shoot out, Caomhin Kelleher saved one of the Czech spot kicks, but Finn Azaz and Alan Browne missed theirs, to send Ireland out.<\/p>\n<p>It was a horrible way for the World Cup dream to end, and there&#8217;ll be plenty of regrets and thoughts of what might have been.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson..<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>It was just a bad a night for the North and Wales after they too bowed out.<br \/>The North lost 2-0 away to Italy, while Wales were beaten on penalties by Bosnia\/Herzegovina<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=62f5d1bc-976b-45a1-a0cb-ee4acf856ae1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f645855.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Sport Ireland will have a lot of regrets, having some so close to winning the tie in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4263,4262,61,60,3323,4259,4258,4265,4266,4264,4260,4261,43],"class_list":["post-367661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-drogheda-radio","tag-dundalk-radio","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-job-search","tag-lm-fm","tag-lmfm","tag-lmfm-breakfast-show","tag-lmfm-late-lunch","tag-lmfm-podcast","tag-louth-radio","tag-meath-radio","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367661","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=367661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}