{"id":413521,"date":"2026-04-23T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413521\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:50:08","slug":"michael-oneill-northern-ireland-boss-on-future-with-blackburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413521\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael O&#8217;Neill: Northern Ireland boss on future with Blackburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s contract with the Irish Football Association (IFA) runs until 2028 and he says there will be talks with Blackburn about his future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will lead Blackburn into their final Championship game of the season against already-relegated Leicester on 2 May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Look, of course those discussions will take place, you know the club have a decision to make themselves, on what direction they want to go,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a contracted manager, so the situation doesn&#8217;t really change from, I suppose for any club, if they wanted me as a manager, they would have to go through the IFA, they would have to meet the terms of the release clause and I would have to want to do it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s existed at any point of my management career at international level and it&#8217;s the same now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This was a loan, I suppose given where we are it&#8217;ll be deemed as a successful loan. I&#8217;ve enjoyed the club, there&#8217;s a lot of really, really good people at the club and you know. I&#8217;m sure conversations will happen one way or the other obviously in the weeks ahead.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s contract with the Irish Football Association (IFA) runs until 2028 and he says there will be talks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-413521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413521","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=413521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}