{"id":217486,"date":"2025-12-30T04:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217486\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T04:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:55:12","slug":"freezing-temperatures-and-risk-of-snow-could-impact-st-brigids-and-strokestown-semi-finals-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217486\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing temperatures and risk of snow could impact St. Brigid\u2019s and Strokestown semi-finals &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Freezing temperatures and a risk of snow this weekend could cause disruption to All-Ireland club football semi-finals involving County Roscommon clubs, St. Brigid\u2019s and Strokestown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Temperatures are set to plummet across the country from New Year\u2019s Day (Thursday), with Met \u00c9ireann predicting that conditions are set to become \u201cvery cold\u201d next weekend with \u201cthe potential for some wintry precipitation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Forecasters are warning that temperatures are set to fall well below freezing at night, with some areas unlikely to see temperatures above 0c by day, meaning a risk of frozen pitches, especially in the northern half of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Strokestown are set to get the ball rolling on Saturday in Fr Tierney Park, Ballyshannon, against Glenullin where there is an early throw-in time of 12.30 p.m..<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Sunday, St. Brigid\u2019s are scheduled to meet Scotstown in their All-Ireland senior semi-final at Kingspan Breffni, Cavan, at 3 p.m..<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The FBD Connacht League is also set to get underway this weekend, with Roscommon playing Leitrim in Orchard Park, Elphin, on Sunday at 1 p.m..<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Supporters are being asked to keep in touch with weather updates and guidance from the GAA and their clubs over the coming days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freezing temperatures and a risk of snow this weekend could cause disruption to All-Ireland club football semi-finals involving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-217486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217486","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=217486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}