{"id":20521,"date":"2025-09-14T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/20521\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:09:06","slug":"updates-from-the-womens-world-cup-quarter-final-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/20521\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates from the Women\u2019s World Cup quarter-final \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup quarter-final: Ireland v France, Sandy Park, Exeter, 1pm (Live on RT\u00c9 One)<\/p>\n<p>Key Reads<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Hello and welcome to the Irish Times blog for Ireland\u2019s World Cup quarterfinal clash with France at Sanday Park this afternoon (1.0). John O\u2019Sullivan here and I\u2019ll take you through the build-up and match. Gerry Thornley and Nathan Johns are at the game which takes place in the home of the Exeter Chiefs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland make two changes to the team that lost 40-0 in their final pool game. Aoife Wafer will play her first game of the tournament following knee surgery. She starts at openside flanker is place of the injured co-captain Edel \u2018Tricky\u2019 McMahon. The other change sees Fiona Tuite restored at blindside flanker have missed the game against the Black Ferns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Grace Moore is the player to lose out. Based on last week\u2019s display she is ridiculously unlucky to suffer that fate. Moore is listed among the replacements. Stacey Flood appears to have passed a fitness test on her cut shin that required stitches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Niamh O\u2019Dowd, or \u2018DJ Noddy\u2019 as she is known on the team bus will make her 20th international appearance. Replacement hooker Cl\u00edodhna Moloney-MacDonald knows Sandy Park very well as it is the home ground of her club Exeter Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Enya Breen also returns to the matchday 23, with Emily Lane and Anna McGann the other reserve backs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup quarter-final: Ireland v France, Sandy Park, Exeter, 1pm (Live on RT\u00c9 One) Key Reads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1254,43,2446],"class_list":["post-20521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-womens-rugby","tag-news","tag-womens-rugby-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521","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=20521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}