Troy Parrott interview: ‘I’ve done all my watching. The goosebumps are gone a little bit now’Ireland striker on family, Mourinho, his future, and the belief that more memories like Budapest will comeTroy Parrott celebrates scoring his hat-trick in the World Cup 2026 Group F qualifier win over Hungary at Puskás Aréna in Budapest, last November. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/SportsfileMiguel Delaney ©UK Independent Today at 17:00It might have been a moment that caused any Irish person watching to lose capacity for rational thought, and was already the kind of high-stakes circumstance where intensity of emotion overrides everything else, but there was none of that for the man at the centre.

Source: Irish Independent February 16, 2026 15:13 UTC