{"id":16579,"date":"2025-09-12T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/16579\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:25:08","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-ireland-captain-sam-monaghan-hails-return-of-aoife-wafer-for-france-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/16579\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Ireland captain\u00a0Sam Monaghan hails return of Aoife Wafer for France clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland captain Sam Monaghan has welcomed the return of Aoife Wafer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3232068 (1).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)\">Ireland captain Sam Monaghan has welcomed the return of Aoife Wafer<\/p>\n<p>Sin\u00e9ad Kissane in Exeter<\/p>\n<p>Today at 14:21<\/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)\">The inclusion of Aoife Water in the Ireland team for Sunday\u2019s World Cup quarter-final is \u201chuge\u201d according to Ireland captain Sam Monaghan.<\/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)\">Wafer\u2019s return has been welcomed by Monaghan and head coach Scott Bemand in what will be the star backrower\u2019s first appearance in this tournament after she missed the three pool games with a knee injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland captain Sam Monaghan has welcomed the return of Aoife Wafer Sin\u00e9ad Kissane in Exeter Today at 14:21&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4173],"class_list":["post-16579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sinead-kissane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16579","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=16579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}