{"id":367920,"date":"2026-03-27T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367920\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:18:09","slug":"whats-next-for-ireland-after-world-cup-despair-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367920\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s next for Ireland after World Cup despair in Prague?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next up is a &#8216;friendly&#8217; with North Macedonia on Tuesday at Aviva Stadium (7.45pm). The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/soccer\/arid-41817722.html\">North Madeconians were also defeated<\/a> at the &#8216;semi-final&#8217; stage, losing 4-0 to Denmark last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That game, now meaningless bar some minor value in ranking points, was previously the hottest ticket in Dublin. But has now seen many disappointed fans already attempt to offload their seats overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ireland manager Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson has already <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/soccer\/arid-41813102.html\">signed a new contract<\/a> to pilot Ireland until the end of Euro 2028 qualification.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ireland may yet qualify for that tournament as co-hosts, but the process begins with the Nations League fixtures this autumn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Most talked about games there are the home and away games with Israel, which will now come back into focus with no trip to the USA and Mexico in store this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Republic of Ireland Nations League fixtures:\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thursday, 24 September: Kosovo v Republic of Ireland 7.45pm\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sunday, 27 September: Israel v Republic of Ireland 7.45pm\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thursday, 1 October: Republic of Ireland v Austria 7.45pm\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sunday, 4 October Republic of Ireland v Israel 7.45pm\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Saturday, 14 November Austria v Republic of Ireland 7.45pm\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tuesday, 17 November Republic of Ireland v Kosovo 7.45pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next up is a &#8216;friendly&#8217; with North Macedonia on Tuesday at Aviva Stadium (7.45pm). The North Madeconians were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2957,61,60,43,1842],"class_list":["post-367920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367920","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=367920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}