{"id":85176,"date":"2025-10-16T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/85176\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:19:09","slug":"daniel-mcdonnell-spicing-up-the-international-window-could-have-mixed-implications-for-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/85176\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McDonnell: Spicing up the international window could have mixed implications for Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson and Finn Azaz after the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group F qualifying win over Armenia at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.  Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3261073.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 head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson and Finn Azaz after the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group F qualifying win over Armenia at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.  Photo by 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)\">The dust is settling on an international window that threw up some great stories around Europe. We had Faroe Islands shocking Czechia, Kosovo securing a win in Sweden that puts a playoff place within touching distance, and Norway\u2019s beautiful hammering of Israel which ensures Italy will have to take their chances next March.<\/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)\">But, of course, England won their games easily again so we\u2019ll probably have to rip up the whole format because of the exceptionalism that makes some of their commentators so insufferable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson and Finn Azaz after the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group F qualifying win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,1113,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-85176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85176","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=85176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}