{"id":294820,"date":"2026-02-12T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:53:09","slug":"league-of-ireland-previews-team-news-and-verdicts-for-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294820\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Ireland previews, team news and verdicts for Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770929589_407_video.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)\">League of Ireland Premier Division &#8211; Matchweek 2 Preview<\/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)\">DERRY CITY v DUNDALK (Ryan McBride Brandywell, 7.45)<\/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: Derry have a full squad. Dundalk are missing Leo Gaxha (injury), Harvey Warren (suspension), Se\u00e1n Spaight and TJ Molloy-Murray (international duty) but Vinnie Leonard is available and the squad is boosted by Tyreke Wilson\u2019s arrival from Shelbourne.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League of Ireland Premier Division &#8211; Matchweek 2 Preview DERRY CITY v DUNDALK (Ryan McBride Brandywell, 7.45) Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-294820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294820","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=294820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}