{"id":370679,"date":"2026-03-29T01:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370679\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:47:13","slug":"it-would-be-good-for-us-but-is-up-to-him-heimir-hallgrimsson-wants-seamus-coleman-to-continue-playing-for-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370679\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It would be good for us but is up to him\u2019 \u2013 Heimir Hallgrimsson wants Seamus Coleman to continue playing for Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Seamus Coleman of Ireland following the penalty shootout defeat to Czechia. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3406937.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)\">Seamus Coleman of Ireland following the penalty shootout defeat to Czechia. Photo by 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)\">Heimir Hallgrimsson has indicated that he would like Seamus Coleman to continue playing for Ireland and believes that age alone should not be an obstacle to the veteran continuing to Euro 2028.<\/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)\">Coleman will turn 40 four months after the tournament and his appearance in Thursday\u2019s agonising playoff defeat to Czechia was his first senior game at any level since November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Coleman of Ireland following the penalty shootout defeat to Czechia. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile Heimir Hallgrimsson has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,4700,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-370679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370679","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=370679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}