{"id":82850,"date":"2025-10-15T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82850\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:54:08","slug":"aidan-fitzmaurice-predictably-pallid-ireland-midfield-still-the-main-area-of-concern-for-tests-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82850\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Fitzmaurice: Predictably pallid Ireland midfield still the main area of concern for tests to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jayson Molumby will be absent from Ireland's midfield when Portugal come to Dublin next month. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/92cca3bd-05c3-461e-9413-cf6b930d984d.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)\">Jayson Molumby will be absent from Ireland&#8217;s midfield when Portugal come to Dublin next month. Photo: 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 crumbs of comfort go, it\u2019s a very, very small one.<\/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)\">That\u2019s confirmation that Manchester United man Bruno Fernandes will not play a role for Portugal when they come to Dublin next month for the qualifier that should send them off to the 2026 World Cup finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayson Molumby will be absent from Ireland&#8217;s midfield when Portugal come to Dublin next month. Photo: Sportsfile As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,4700,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-82850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82850","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=82850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}