JOHN O\u2019SHEA HAS confirmed he is close to signing an extension to his contract as Ireland assistant manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heimir Hallgrimsson renewed his Ireland deal through to Euro 2028 ahead of last month\u2019s World Cup play-off loss to Czechia, and said he hoped O\u2019Shea would join him in extending his own deal. Speaking as a pundit on Premier Sports\u2019 Champions League coverage on Wednesday evening, O\u2019Shea confirmed he is close to finalising a deal to remain on Hallgrimsson\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re nearly there\u201d, said O\u2019Shea. \u201cIt\u2019s always a honour to have any kind of association with the Irish team and to be involved in special games and special moment, and working with Heimir, Paddy [McCarthy] and the lads is brilliant, so hoping that continues and there will be something to announce very shortly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
O\u2019Shea also reflected on the bitter defeat in Prague, saying the pain of the penalty shootout loss has not ebbed away despite the passage of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s probably got a bit worse\u201d, he said. \u201cWe have to move on. Looking at how Troy and others spoke after the game and spoke in the dressing room, was just pleasing for us to hear and see. They know how they gutted they were, but how gutted they were for the people of Ireland as well.\u00a0 [They said] to keep their heads up and to use it as fuel to get to major tournaments, ultimately.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
O\u2019Shea first ascended to the senior coaching staff during the latter stages of Stephen Kenny\u2019s reign, remaining on to take temporary charge of four friendly matches in the first half of 2024, prior to Hallgrimsson\u2019s appointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHN O\u2019SHEA HAS confirmed he is close to signing an extension to his contract as Ireland assistant manager.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[185567,4700,61,60,46617,43,3404],"class_list":["post-423877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-continuity","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-o-shea","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423877","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=423877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}