{"id":378770,"date":"2026-04-02T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378770\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:09:08","slug":"corks-mcgrath-congratulates-son-and-colleagues-as-ireland-into-u17s-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378770\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork&#8217;s McGrath congratulates son and colleagues as Ireland into U17s World Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">EU commissioner Michael McGrath has congratulated Ireland\u2019s U17s team on their qualification for the Fifa 2026 World Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The event will take place this November in Qatar and will see the Irish team join nations including Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, and Serbia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">In a post on social media, Mr McGrath said he is \u201csuper proud\u201d of his son, Tom, who is the capatin of the U17s team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cI am super proud of Tom for leading the U17s to secure qualification for the World Cup Finals as captain,\u201d Mr McGrath said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\n            \u201cWinning five games out of six in the qualification campaign, the boys capped it off with a fantastic 7-0 victory over Slovakia in Bzreg, Poland.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cWell done to Tom\u2019s Cork City FC team-mate Cillian Murphy on a stunning hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cCongratulations to coach Mark Connors and his management team on a fantastic job, and to Paul Osam who led the team so well in the preliminary qualification round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU commissioner Michael McGrath has congratulated Ireland\u2019s U17s team on their qualification for the Fifa 2026 World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-378770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378770","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=378770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}