{"id":400389,"date":"2026-04-15T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400389\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:58:12","slug":"damien-duff-to-join-virgin-medias-punditry-team-for-fridays-dublin-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400389\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Duff to join Virgin Media\u2019s punditry team for Friday\u2019s Dublin derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Shelbourne manager Damien Duff is joining the Virgin Media League of Ireland punditry team. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/656eb68b-8155-4bed-8a8f-877b2b5c2370.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)\">Former Shelbourne manager Damien Duff is joining the Virgin Media League of Ireland punditry team. Photo: 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)\">Damien Duff will return to TV screens this Friday when he makes his League of Ireland punditry debut on Virgin Media\u2019s live coverage of Shamrock Rovers\u2019 against Bohemians.<\/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 former Shelbourne boss will be a studio analyst for the big Dublin derby alongside his former Ireland underage manager Brian Kerr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Shelbourne manager Damien Duff is joining the Virgin Media League of Ireland punditry team. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14645,23531,61,60,43,4876,11113],"class_list":{"0":"post-400389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-bohemian-fc","9":"tag-damien-duff","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sean-oconnor","14":"tag-shamrock-rovers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400389","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=400389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}