{"id":15535,"date":"2025-09-12T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15535\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:56:11","slug":"your-guide-to-fridays-fai-cup-and-league-of-ireland-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15535\/","title":{"rendered":"Your guide to Friday\u2019s FAI Cup and League of Ireland fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Noonan of Shamrock Rovers in action against James Bolger of Drogheda United will renew rivalries in Friday's FAI Cup quarter-final. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3226401.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)\">Michael Noonan of Shamrock Rovers in action against James Bolger of Drogheda United will renew rivalries in Friday&#8217;s FAI Cup quarter-final. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Here\u2019s all you need to know about this weekend\u2019s League of Ireland Premier Division and FAI Cup action.<\/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)\">Team news: Drogheda are missing Elicha Ahui and Steve Zishim Bawa to injury with John O\u2019Sullivan ineligible under the terms of his loan, and Josh Thomas is doubtful. Rovers\u2019 only absentee is Connor Malley as Roberto Lopes, Michael Noonan and Josh Honohan are fit after international duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Noonan of Shamrock Rovers in action against James Bolger of Drogheda United will renew rivalries in Friday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14645,14641,14646,14640,14642,61,60,14643,43,11113,14644],"class_list":["post-15535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bohemian-fc","tag-cork-city","tag-derry-city","tag-drogheda-united-fc","tag-finn-harps","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kerry-fc","tag-news","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-sligo-rovers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535","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=15535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}