{"id":437061,"date":"2026-05-07T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437061\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:51:13","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-stephen-bradleys-shamrock-rovers-deserve-better-than-a-half-empty-tallaght-stadium-to-watch-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437061\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: Stephen Bradley\u2019s Shamrock Rovers deserve better than a half-empty Tallaght Stadium to watch them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maleace Asamoah of Shamrock Rovers celebrates after scoring against Drogheda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sports3446408.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)\">Maleace Asamoah of Shamrock Rovers celebrates after scoring against Drogheda<\/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)\">There were plenty of talking points to take out of Shamrock Rovers\u2019 routine victory over Drogheda United on Monday.<\/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 had Victor Ozhianvuna, a star of the future, showcasing why Arsenal have paid \u20ac2m for his services, with Stephen Bradley arguing afterwards that the teenager should be in the Ireland squad because there\u2019s no other midfielder like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maleace Asamoah of Shamrock Rovers celebrates after scoring against Drogheda There were plenty of talking points to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3264,42,43,11113,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-437061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437061","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=437061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}