{"id":381420,"date":"2026-04-04T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381420\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:37:10","slug":"donegals-sean-patton-makes-ireland-u-21-debut-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381420\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal&#8217;s Sean Patton makes Ireland U-21 debut in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High-flying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/search?q=Sean+Patton&amp;idcanale=6&amp;idcanalericerca=6\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Patton<\/a> made his first appearance for the Republic of Ireland U-21s in their narrow 1-0 win away to Kazakhstan in the UEFA European Championship qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Following a 1-1 draw at home to Moldova, Oisin Gallagher from Derry, who plays as a central midfielder for National League club Boston United on loan from EFL League One club Lincoln City, headed the only goal in the last minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patton came on as a 66th-minute substitute to replace Tommy Lonergan from Waterford FC.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/Finn%20Harps pick up another clean sheet as they draw with league leaders Cork City\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finn Harps pick up another clean sheet as they draw with league leaders Cork City<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The victory moves Ireland within five points of second-placed Slovakia with three games to go, and they face the Slovaks away in a pivotal play-off clash in their next game in late September.<\/p>\n<p>Drumkeen native Patton was recalled from a loan spell by Reading from Aldershot, who play in the National League, after five goals and an assist in six outings, in late February.<\/p>\n<p>Since his return to League One Reading, the 19-year-old has made his first league start.\u00a0A former student at St Eunan&#8217;s College in Letterkenny, Patton has previously represented Ireland at Under-19 level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nine group winners and the best runner-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) qualify directly for the tournament. The remaining eight runners-up head for the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High-flying Sean Patton made his first appearance for the Republic of Ireland U-21s in their narrow 1-0 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1485,161455,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-381420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-donegal","9":"tag-drumkeen","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381420","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=381420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}