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Budapest saviour does 500 replays
Irish Daily Mirror
|November 18, 2025
TROY PARROTT admits he has watched his winning goal about '500 times' — but he won't be getting a tattoo to commemorate it.
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Parrott inspired a magnificent comeback to rekindle Ireland's World Cup dream with a dramatic hat-trick against Hungary on Sunday.
And his last-gasp winner (above) has already become iconic.
"How many times I have watched it back? Probably about 500 times - every time I go on to my phone, it's there," Parrott told the BBC.
"Even last night when I got to bed, I couldn't sleep imagining it over and over and over again.
"In general, I'm not really an emotional person, it's the first time I've cried in years.
"Look, I can sit here and try to describe it but it is the first time I've felt something like that.
"I've scored goals before but none as meaningful as my last one against Hungary.
This story is from the November 18, 2025 edition of Irish Daily Mirror.
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