{"id":55588,"date":"2025-10-01T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55588\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:12:09","slug":"we-are-the-shining-light-of-irish-football-stephen-bradley-hopes-historic-european-night-can-send-positive-message-to-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55588\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are the shining light of Irish football\u2019 \u2013 Stephen Bradley hopes historic European night can send positive message to Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/video.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)\">Historic night ahead for Shamrock overs and Shelbourne<\/p>\n<p>Daniel McDonnell in Prague<\/p>\n<p>Today at 20:30<\/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 Bradley believes a historic Conference League night proves that the League of Ireland has become the \u2018shining light for Irish football\u2019 and is hopeful that the exploits of Shamrock Rovers and Shelbourne are sending a positive message to Government ahead of next week\u2019s budget.<\/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)\">For the first time ever, two Irish clubs will be involved in the league phase of a European competition with Rovers in Czechia to take on Sparta Prague in their Conference League opener while Shelbourne are back in Tallaght opening their campaign against Swedish side Hacken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historic night ahead for Shamrock overs and Shelbourne Daniel McDonnell in Prague Today at 20:30 Stephen Bradley believes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,61,60,43,11113,25201],"class_list":["post-55588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-shelbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55588","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=55588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}