{"id":415475,"date":"2026-04-24T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415475\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:26:19","slug":"martin-oneill-hails-outstanding-liam-scales-as-ireland-defender-signs-new-celtic-deal-until-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415475\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin O\u2019Neill hails \u2018outstanding\u2019 Liam Scales as Ireland defender signs new Celtic deal until 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liam Scales has signed a new deal with Celtic. Photo credit: Andrew Milligan\/PA Wire.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2c9539fb-9097-40a0-8bf5-e27f0a50bf31.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)\">Liam Scales has signed a new deal with Celtic. Photo credit: Andrew Milligan\/PA Wire.<\/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)\">Celtic boss Martin O\u2019Neill has hailed Liam Scales\u2019 \u201coutstanding\u201d progress at Parkhead after the Ireland defender committed his future to the club with a new contract until 2030.<\/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 27-year-old Wicklow man signed for the current Scottish champions in 2021 from Shamrock Rovers after coming up through UCD\u2019s academy, and following a season-long loan at Aberdeen (2022\/\u201923), he has gone on to establish himself as a key man in the Hoops\u2019 defence in recent seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Scales has signed a new deal with Celtic. Photo credit: Andrew Milligan\/PA Wire. Celtic boss Martin O\u2019Neill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-415475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415475","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=415475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}