{"id":580863,"date":"2026-08-02T22:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580863\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:16:11","slug":"cronin-departs-republic-of-ireland-assistant-coaching-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580863\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronin Departs Republic Of Ireland Assistant Coaching Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Sunday, 2 August 2026 15:40\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Mark Hanbidge\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/68ee5b7b85a90.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Gary Cronin has stepped down as assistant coach of the Republic of Ireland women&#8217;s team after less than seven months in the role.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Gary Cronin has left his position as assistant coach with the Republic of Ireland women&#8217;s national team, just seven months after his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Cronin joined Carla Ward&#8217;s coaching staff in January and was involved in all six of Ireland&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers, including victories over Poland and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>The FAI has begun the search for a new assistant coach ahead of Ireland&#8217;s World Cup play-off against Kazakhstan in October.<\/p>\n<p>Cronin said it had been an honour to represent his country and wished the squad every success in the upcoming qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 2 August 2026 15:40 By Mark Hanbidge Gary Cronin has stepped down as assistant coach of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-580863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580863","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=580863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}