{"id":449115,"date":"2026-05-14T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449115\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:13:12","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-irelands-ability-to-stop-the-nation-wont-be-tested-with-ultimate-hard-sell-games-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449115\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: Ireland\u2019s ability to stop the nation won\u2019t be tested with ultimate hard-sell games this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson during a Republic of Ireland training session at La Finca Resort in Alicante, Spain. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4fca583d-344e-460e-8934-8435389540a3.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)\">Head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson during a Republic of Ireland training session at La Finca Resort in Alicante, Spain. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">After March gave us the most eagerly anticipated international window in a decade, we are now in a week that will end with a contender for the lowest-key Irish fixture in recent memory.<\/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)\">Saturday\u2019s friendly with Grenada in Murcia has only been deemed worthy of broadcast on the RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson during a Republic of Ireland training session at La Finca Resort in Alicante, Spain.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-449115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449115","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=449115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}