{"id":24109,"date":"2025-09-16T03:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24109\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:17:11","slug":"france-flanker-axelle-berthoumieu-handed-12-match-ban-for-biting-irelands-aoife-wafer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24109\/","title":{"rendered":"France flanker Axelle Berthoumieu handed 12-match ban for biting Ireland\u2019s Aoife Wafer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">French captain Manae Feleu appeals three-week ban meted out following Sunday\u2019s World Cup win in Exeter\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Aoife Wafer appears to be bitten by her French opponent in the World Cup quarter-final\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757992631_105_8cfc4466-9669-4e03-9306-730a579570f5.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&#8217;s Aoife Wafer appears to be bitten by her French opponent in the World Cup quarter-final<\/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)\">France will be without their captain Manae Feleu and flanker Axelle Berthoumieu for the remainder of the World Cup after both players were banned for acts of foul play during their controversial 18-13 win over Ireland on Sunday.<\/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)\">Berthoumieu has been suspended for 12 matches, reduced from 18, after she was found to have bitten Ireland back-row Aoife Wafer early in the second-half at Sandy Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French captain Manae Feleu appeals three-week ban meted out following Sunday\u2019s World Cup win in Exeter Ireland&#8217;s Aoife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,16766],"class_list":["post-24109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109","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=24109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}