{"id":453387,"date":"2026-05-17T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453387\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:27:09","slug":"it-should-have-been-about-eight-tom-cannon-on-getting-off-the-mark-with-ireland-in-grenada-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453387\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It should have been about eight\u2019 \u2013 Tom Cannon on getting off the mark with Ireland in Grenada rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Cannon of Republic of Ireland celebrates with team-mates Chiedozie Ogbene, centre, and Adam Idah at Estadio Nueva Condomina in Murcia, Spain. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sports3459524.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)\">Tom Cannon of Republic of Ireland celebrates with team-mates Chiedozie Ogbene, centre, and Adam Idah at Estadio Nueva Condomina in Murcia, Spain. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p>Aidan Fitzmaurice in Murcia<\/p>\n<p>Today at 11:00<\/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)\">Tom Cannon says he will focus on the goals he scored and not the hat-trick he missed out on after he finally made his mark at international level.<\/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 Sheffield United striker made an immediate impact as a half-time sub for Ireland in Saturday&#8217;s 5-0 win over Grenada in Murcia as he scored right after his arrival and then added a second goal, though the 23-year-old could potentially have joined Jack Moylan on a hat-trick as a series of efforts were blocked or saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cannon of Republic of Ireland celebrates with team-mates Chiedozie Ogbene, centre, and Adam Idah at Estadio Nueva&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-453387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453387","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=453387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}