{"id":423113,"date":"2026-04-29T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423113\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:29:09","slug":"aidan-fitzmaurice-from-sack-race-to-manager-of-the-year-contender-old-trafford-display-shows-how-far-keith-andrews-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423113\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Fitzmaurice: From sack race to manager of the year contender \u2013 Old Trafford display shows how far Keith Andrews has come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Keith Andrews after his Brentford side were defeated at Old Trafford on Monday night. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/N-BRE (78) (2).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)\">Keith Andrews after his Brentford side were defeated at Old Trafford on Monday night. Photo: Reuters<\/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)\">We will respect his privacy by not putting his name into the public domain.<\/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)\">But when the so-called culture war raged during Stephen Kenny\u2019s time as Ireland manager, one former senior international \u2013 no one-cap-wonder but a high-profile one, a World Cup veteran \u2013 was so irked by something he\u2019d read in these pages that he was moved to make direct contact, to counter what he saw as the relentless positivity from the media, this writer included, around Kenny\u2019s Ireland side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Andrews after his Brentford side were defeated at Old Trafford on Monday night. Photo: Reuters We will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,29466,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-423113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-brentford-fc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423113","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=423113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}