{"id":83638,"date":"2025-10-16T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83638\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:00:12","slug":"without-courtney-brosnan-irelands-goalkeeper-conundrum-will-be-the-number-one-issue-as-play-off-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83638\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Courtney Brosnan, Ireland\u2019s goalkeeper conundrum will be the number one issue as play-off looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland are without injured goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/96baabdd-512d-4ca3-9012-0e3e4f416f7b.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)\">Ireland are without injured goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/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)\">Courtney Brosnan cannot be blamed for looking after number one so confidently, but the competence of successive Ireland managers to secure a reliable number two will be tested this month.<\/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)\">Brosnan\u2019s absence from the upcoming Nations League play-off dates against Belgium, where Ireland seek to escape from Europe\u2019s second tier, is no shock after missing four successive Everton games with a knee injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland are without injured goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile Courtney Brosnan cannot be blamed for looking after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8495,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-83638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-david-kelly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83638","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=83638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}