{"id":300158,"date":"2026-02-16T01:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300158\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:13:07","slug":"donegal-beat-mayo-france-beat-wales-in-six-nations-fixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300158\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal beat Mayo, France beat Wales in Six Nations fixture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            GAA<\/p>\n<p>Donegal are the only unbeaten side in Division 1 of the National Football League.<\/p>\n<p>They handed Mayo their first defeat of the year, thanks to a 1-19 to 14-point victory this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It puts Jim McGuinness&#8217; men two points clear at the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Roscommon are up to second after their 3-18 to 24 point win at home to Armagh.<\/p>\n<p>Cork are still the team to catch in Division 2.<\/p>\n<p>John Cleary&#8217;s men kept their 100 per cent record intact with a 3-15 to 19 point win over Offaly.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrone have their first win of the year.<\/p>\n<p>They beat fellow Ulster side Cavan by 2-23 to 1-14 in Omagh this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Soccer<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are easing themselves into the last 16 of the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>They are 4-0 up over 2013 winners Wigan in the second half of the final tie of the day.<\/p>\n<p>All the other Premier League sides progressed earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds needed penalties to see off Birmingham City while Fulham, Wolves and Sunderland all beat lower league opposition by one goal.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic scored a dramatic 97th minute winner to come back from 2-nil down and beat Kilmarnock 3-2 at Rugby Park.<\/p>\n<p>It keeps the defending Scottish Premiership champions in the hunt to retain their title &#8211; and puts some pressure on leaders Hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic look set to close the gap to leaders Hearts.<\/p>\n<p>The table toppers are currently 3-2 down to Rangers in the second half at Ibrox.<\/p>\n<p>Rugby<\/p>\n<p>Wales suffered a 54-12 defeat to defending champions France in the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p>It is a second heavy loss in a row for Steve Tandy&#8217;s side, after they were thrashed 48-7 by England last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>France now have a maximum 10 points from their first two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Golf<\/p>\n<p>Shane Lowry is making a move for the top 10 of the Pebble Beach Pro Am this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Offaly man is 1 under thru three holes today to move up to 14 under par for the week on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves him in a tie for 11th as things stand and five shots off the lead.<\/p>\n<p>American Akshay Bhatia is still the man to catch on 19 under par.<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy is 4 under thru nine holes today and is a shot behind Lowry on 13 under par.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAA Donegal are the only unbeaten side in Division 1 of the National Football League. They handed Mayo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-300158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300158","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=300158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}