{"id":373485,"date":"2026-03-30T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373485\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:53:18","slug":"sean-oconnor-ireland-need-new-leaders-to-step-up-after-prague-agony-but-heimir-hallgrimsson-must-nurture-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373485\/","title":{"rendered":"Se\u00e1n O\u2019Connor: Ireland need new leaders to step up after Prague agony, but Heimir Hallgrimsson must nurture them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"S\u00e9amus Coleman is Ireland's most capped current player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d05c2dcb-422e-4997-a0ca-6ff6b6a3afd0.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)\">S\u00e9amus Coleman is Ireland&#8217;s most capped current player<\/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)\">His actions in November sent the nation into a frenzy and had many dreaming of a first World Cup in 24 years, but minutes after suffering an agonising defeat in Prague, Troy Parrott\u2019s words spoke volumes about his character.<\/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)\">He had done his bit on the pitch, scoring Ireland\u2019s opener from the spot before repeating the trick in the shoot-out. However, off it, he shouldered the extra responsibility of expressing his emotions in a moment when no words could even attempt to ease the pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00e9amus Coleman is Ireland&#8217;s most capped current player His actions in November sent the nation into a frenzy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,4700,61,60,43,4876],"class_list":["post-373485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fai","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373485","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=373485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}