{"id":370291,"date":"2026-03-28T19:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370291\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:47:09","slug":"david-kelly-irelands-passion-play-requires-adaptation-to-ensure-returning-audience-retains-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370291\/","title":{"rendered":"David Kelly: Ireland\u2019s passion play requires adaptation to ensure returning audience retains the faith"},"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\">Ireland were cannibalised by their own emotions as the irrepressible energy slowly lapsed with fatique\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Republic of Ireland players react during the penalty shoot-out at Fortuna Arena in Prague. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/28d1ed6a-484e-4db0-a6dd-f0690e45d29c.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)\">Republic of Ireland players react during the penalty shoot-out at Fortuna Arena in Prague. 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)\">The Easter passion arrived a week earlier for Ireland\u2019s alternative religion last Thursday in a city where, almost 450 years ago, a group of Irish monks fled Cromwellian persecution.<\/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)\">But it will persist, from Prague to Dublin, in the guise of a tormented transubstantiation in the Aviva on Tuesday, when an unwanted friendly supplants what had been anticipated instead as the final step towards a first World Cup appearance in a generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland were cannibalised by their own emotions as the irrepressible energy slowly lapsed with fatique Republic of Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8495,4700,61,60,43,44452],"class_list":["post-370291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-david-kelly","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-troy-parrott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370291","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=370291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}