{"id":371575,"date":"2026-03-29T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371575\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:08:11","slug":"crisis-in-camp-as-bruised-north-macedonia-head-for-dublin-for-most-unimportant-match-in-our-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371575\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in camp as bruised North Macedonia head for Dublin for \u2018most unimportant match in our history\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The North Macedonia leaving Skopje to head for Dublin today\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image 121.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)\">The North Macedonia leaving Skopje to head for Dublin today<\/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)\">Ireland\u2019s opponents in Tuesday\u2019s unwanted friendly, North Macedonia, will travel to Dublin with a cloud over their camp as injury and walkouts \u2013 including the retirement of their leading scorer \u2013 have reduced their options.<\/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 Macedonians play away to Ireland as a consequence of losing their World Cup play-off semi-final away to Denmark but enthusiasm in their camp is low for their first visit to Dublin since 2011. \u201cThis can simply be described as the most unimportant match in the history of the national football team,\u201d the sportmanija.mk website said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North Macedonia leaving Skopje to head for Dublin today Ireland\u2019s opponents in Tuesday\u2019s unwanted friendly, North Macedonia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-371575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371575","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=371575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}