{"id":469728,"date":"2026-05-27T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469728\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:37:08","slug":"kiernan-dewsbury-hall-dismisses-rumours-of-switching-allegiance-from-england-to-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469728\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall dismisses rumours of switching allegiance from England to Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/everton-fc\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/everton-fc\/\">Everton<\/a>\u2019s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall has dismissed rumours of a potential change in international allegiance from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/england-football-team\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/england-football-team\/\">England<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a>, stating \u201cEngland is always the dream\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A post shared on X on Saturday claimed the midfielder \u201chas informed [Republic of Ireland] manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a> of his desire to pledge his allegiance to Ireland after missing out on England\u2019s World Cup squad\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The post added: \u201c(He) expects to be in squad for September\u2019s Nations League games once passport issues are sorted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, Dewsbury-Hall replied to the post on Wednesday, rubbishing the claims. \u201cJust not true. Massive respect to [Ireland] as I\u2019ve previously stated, but I\u2019m English &amp; England is always the dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?? Just not true. Massive respect to \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea as I\u2019ve previously stated, but I\u2019m English &amp; England is always the dream. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWv1nWNbAP\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/UWv1nWNbAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (@KDH__8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KDH__8\/status\/2059561708306289118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 27-year-old was not included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/05\/22\/england-world-cup-squad-shock-call-up-for-ivan-toney-no-room-for-maguire-palmer-and-foden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/05\/22\/england-world-cup-squad-shock-call-up-for-ivan-toney-no-room-for-maguire-palmer-and-foden\/\">26-man England squad Thomas Tuchel named<\/a> last week for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\">World Cup<\/a> in North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dewsbury-Hall qualifies for Ireland through family links but has previously made his international commitments clear, and discussed the matter with former Everton team-mate and Republic of Ireland international, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/seamus-coleman\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/seamus-coleman\/\">S\u00e9amus Coleman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Speaking to Everton TV last October, Dewsbury-Hall said: \u201cI have spoken about it with S\u00e9amus. I told him where my head is at, and that is that I see myself as English, and the biggest dream of mine would be to play for England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt would be unfair of me to keep saying \u2018I want to play for the Republic of Ireland\u2019 when that\u2019s probably not what I want to do. As much as I respect Irish people, their fans, and the way they are, it just wouldn\u2019t feel right for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dewsbury-Hall joined the Toffees last August after a one-year stint at Chelsea having come up through the academy system at Leicester, where he made his senior debut in 2020 and helped return to club to the Premier League with their Championship-winning 2023\/24 season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton\u2019s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall has dismissed rumours of a potential change in international allegiance from England to the Republic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11148,88895,4700,61,60,43,1842],"class_list":["post-469728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-england-football-team","tag-everton-fc","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469728","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=469728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}