{"id":55509,"date":"2025-08-09T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:02:08","slug":"ireland-fall-to-canada-in-final-warm-up-game-before-womens-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55509\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland fall to Canada in final warm-up game before Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Canada scored seven tries on their way to a 47-26 victory over Ireland in their final Women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/rugby-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup<\/a> warm-up match.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland made 10 changes as they prepare for their first game of the tournament against Japan on August 24 but they were second best in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>Canada raced into an early 14-0 lead as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/florence-symonds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florence Symonds<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/justine-pelletier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justine Pelletier<\/a> touched down under the posts.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/daleaka-menin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daleaka Menin<\/a> was then sent to the sin bin for high contact on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/ivana-kiripati\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivana Kiripati<\/a> and they were made to pay when the hosts halved the deficit through Beibhinn Parsons\u2019 try in the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Pelletier restored the 14-point lead for Canada before Ireland were reduced to 14 players when captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/neve-jones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neve Jones<\/a> was shown yellow for conceding too many penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Menin barged over for a fourth try before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/paige-farries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Farries<\/a> helped make it 33-7 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Julia Schell walked under the sticks to push Canada over the 40-mark but Ireland started to score points of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Anna McGann helped herself to a couple of tries and Parson scored a third unanswered try before Canada\u2019s Sophie de Goede capped off the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada scored seven tries on their way to a 47-26 victory over Ireland in their final Women\u2019s Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-55509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}