{"id":452445,"date":"2026-05-16T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:17:10","slug":"jack-moylan-makes-history-as-ireland-with-seven-debutants-sink-sorry-grenada-in-the-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452445\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Moylan makes history as Ireland, with seven debutants, sink sorry Grenada in the second half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Republic of Ireland 5 Grenada 0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Moylan with the Player of the match award and the match ball, after scoring a hat-trick against Grenada at Estadio Nueva Condomina in Murcia, Spain. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sports3459787.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)\">Jack Moylan with the Player of the match award and the match ball, after scoring a hat-trick against Grenada at Estadio Nueva Condomina in Murcia, Spain. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p>Aidan Fitzmaurice in Murcia<\/p>\n<p>Today at 20:39<\/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)\">It was always going to be a struggle for Ireland to match the tension and intensity seen in their previous away game in Prague.<\/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)\">They took on a lowly ranked Caribbean nation in a friendly, played in a near-empty Spanish stadium on a Satuday afternoon, and the host city of Murcia showed no interest in the clash between Ireland and Grenada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland 5 Grenada 0 Jack Moylan with the Player of the match award and the match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,4700,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-452445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452445","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=452445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}