{"id":13283,"date":"2025-09-11T00:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/13283\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:41:14","slug":"aoife-wafer-on-track-to-play-for-ireland-in-world-cup-quarter-final-against-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/13283\/","title":{"rendered":"Aoife Wafer on track to play for Ireland in World Cup quarter-final against France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757551274_959_video.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)\">Aoife Wafer on track for Ireland return\u00a0<\/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)\">Aoife Wafer is on track to play in Ireland\u2019s World Cup quarter-final against France at Sandy Park on Sunday. Wafer hasn\u2019t played since Ireland\u2019s win over Wales in the Women\u2019s Six Nations on Easter Sunday at Rodney Parade but the star backrower is on course to play for the first time in this World Cup after coming through training in Exeter today.<\/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)\">\u201cAoife is back training with the squad, she\u2019s looking really good at the minute,\u201d said Gareth Steenson, Ireland kicking coach, at the team\u2019s base in Exeter. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long road for her. She\u2019s got some good training sessions under her belt which has been really good. All being well, she\u2019s available for selection this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoife Wafer on track for Ireland return\u00a0 Aoife Wafer is on track to play in Ireland\u2019s World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-13283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283","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=13283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}