{"id":427083,"date":"2026-05-01T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:32:09","slug":"ireland-u-21-star-mason-melia-drafted-in-to-train-with-tottenham-hotspur-first-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427083\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland U-21 star Mason Melia drafted in to train with Tottenham Hotspur first team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mason Melia joined Tottenham from St Patrick's Athletic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7f262cd5-c30d-47a5-8101-893bc0c0f81c.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)\">Mason Melia joined Tottenham from St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic<\/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)\">Ireland U-21 star Mason Melia has again been called up to train with Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s first-team as Roberto De Zerbi deals with injuries in attack amid the club\u2019s fight for Premier League survival.<\/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 Wicklow native made the move from St Patrick\u2019s Athletic to the north London club in January, after the League of Ireland club agreed a \u00a31.5m deal in February of last year which made him the League of Ireland\u2019s first million-pound export.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Melia joined Tottenham from St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic Ireland U-21 star Mason Melia has again been called up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4876,16489,3568],"class_list":["post-427083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor","tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427083","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=427083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}