{"id":9684,"date":"2025-09-09T10:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:32:08","slug":"is-it-realistic-to-expect-ireland-to-qualify-for-a-world-cup-%c2%b7-the-42fm-%c2%b7-the-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9684\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it realistic to expect Ireland to qualify for a World Cup? \u00b7 The 42FM \u00b7 The 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin joins Sin\u00e9ad from Yerevan ahead of this evening&#8217;s must-win World Cup qualifier vs Armenia. If the Boys in Green claim three points, can a generation of Irish fans who missed out on Italia 90 and Saipan dare to dream of seeing their nation on the biggest stage?<\/p>\n<p>Sin\u00e9ad and Gav discuss their mixed emotions following Ireland&#8217;s 2-2 draw vs Hungary last weekend and draw comparisons between Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson and previous Irish managers Jack Charlton and Vera Pauw.<\/p>\n<p>The duo analyse Ireland&#8217;s lack of a sport psychologist due to the FAI&#8217;s financial struggles, and the negative impact this can have on elite athletes competing at the highest level. Reports of imminent redundancies within the association are also addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Gav reflects on Rory McIlroy&#8217;s stunning dramatic Irish open win, and how he missed all of the drama while en route to Armenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin joins Sin\u00e9ad from Yerevan ahead of this evening&#8217;s must-win World Cup qualifier vs Armenia. If the Boys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1128,4183,10141,3474,2860,61,60,6624,10140,10142,43,3405],"class_list":["post-9684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-football","tag-gaa","tag-gaelic","tag-golf","tag-horse-racing","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-irish-sports-news","tag-motor-racing","tag-news","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684","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=9684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}