{"id":448702,"date":"2026-05-14T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448702\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:47:10","slug":"republic-of-ireland-squad-dundee-uniteds-will-ferry-called-up-to-heimir-hallgrimssons-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448702\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland squad: Dundee United’s Will Ferry called up to Heimir Hallgrimsson’s squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dundee United defender Will Ferry has been called up to the Republic of Ireland squad for Saturday’s friendly against Grenada (17:00 BST). <\/p>\n

The 25-year-old has joined the side in Murcia and is aiming to make his senior debut after representing Republic of Ireland at under-19 and under-21 level.<\/p>\n

Heimir Hallgrimsson’s side face Grenada at the Estadio Nueva Condomina before welcoming Qatar to the Aviva Stadium on 28 May in another friendly. <\/p>\n

Ferry has played a key role for Dundee United this season and scored twice and assisted the other goal during their recent 3-0 derby win against rivals Dundee. <\/p>\n

He was also named Scottish Premiership Player of the Month for April and has made 33 appearances this season.<\/p>\n

The wing-back will aim to make a similar impact at international level, with club manager Jim Goodwin expressing his interest in keeping Ferry amid reported interest from “a number of other clubs”<\/a> in recent weeks. <\/p>\n

As a result of the friendlies falling outside Fifa’s international window, clubs are not obliged to release their players.<\/p>\n

However, earlier in the week it was announced that Newcastle United midfielder Rory Finneran<\/a> had received his first call-up to the senior side.<\/p>\n

Cardiff City defender Joel Bagan and Ipswich Town winger Kasey McAteer have both been ruled out through injury, having being included in the initial squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dundee United defender Will Ferry has been called up to the Republic of Ireland squad for Saturday’s friendly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-448702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448702","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=448702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}