{"id":53654,"date":"2025-09-30T22:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53654\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:03:12","slug":"ive-never-ever-compromised-by-principles-stephen-kenny-fuelled-by-ireland-pain-ahead-of-managerial-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53654\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve never, ever compromised by principles\u2019 \u2013 Stephen Kenny fuelled by Ireland pain ahead of managerial milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Patrick\u2019s Athletic manager Stephen Kenny at a media conference in Abbotstown ahead of the Sports Direct Men's FAI Cup semi-final. Photo by Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/46bf0442-ca09-49e3-8af7-c4ab0aefa299.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)\">St Patrick\u2019s Athletic manager Stephen Kenny at a media conference in Abbotstown ahead of the Sports Direct Men&#8217;s FAI Cup semi-final. Photo by Sam Barnes\/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)\">Stephen Kenny says the disappointment over the end of his time as Ireland boss now functions as a fuel that is motivating him to keep going and bounce up the ladder again as he prepares for his 1,000th game in club management this Friday.<\/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)\">And the St Patrick\u2019s Athletic supremo has stressed that he has no regrets around his approach to the Ireland role because he didn\u2019t compromise his principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Patrick\u2019s Athletic manager Stephen Kenny at a media conference in Abbotstown ahead of the Sports Direct Men&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14641,3264,61,60,43,16489,38384],"class_list":["post-53654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-city","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc","tag-stephen-kenny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53654","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=53654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}