{"id":78626,"date":"2025-10-13T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/78626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:40:10","slug":"armenia-searching-for-more-sweet-revenge-against-ireland-i-never-forgot-what-happened-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/78626\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia searching for more \u2018sweet revenge\u2019 against Ireland \u2013 \u2018I never forgot what happened in Dublin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Yura Movsisyan played in the controversial Euro 2012 qualifier in Lansdowne but the now retired, American-based author believes playing for Armenia \u2018is the best expression we have of our nation\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yura Movsisyan in action against Richard Dunne during Ireland's Euro 2012 qualifier against Armenia. Photo: Matt Browne \/ Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1c500eec-e675-423a-8656-f63bfe563ca0.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)\">Yura Movsisyan in action against Richard Dunne during Ireland&#8217;s Euro 2012 qualifier against Armenia. Photo: Matt Browne \/ 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)\">As a combatant in duels between Armenia and Ireland in a previous decade, the outcome was scars and bruises, both physical and mental.<\/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)\">So when former national team player Yura Movsisyan sat in the packed stands in Yerevan last month as a fan and saw Armenia beat Ireland 2-1, the smiles were merited and long overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yura Movsisyan played in the controversial Euro 2012 qualifier in Lansdowne but the now retired, American-based author believes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-78626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78626","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=78626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}