{"id":327660,"date":"2026-03-04T02:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:28:13","slug":"french-resistance-undoes-irelands-bright-start-in-world-cup-qualifier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327660\/","title":{"rendered":"French resistance undoes Ireland\u2019s bright start in World Cup qualifier"},"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\">\nWomen\u2019s World Cup qualifier: Ireland 1 France 2\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Katie McCabe celebrates after opening the scoring for Ireland in their Women\u2019s World Cup Qualifier against France at Tallaght Stadium. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6cdb13ec-e4f8-4aed-aaef-d44efd173aac.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)\">Katie McCabe celebrates after opening the scoring for Ireland in their Women\u2019s World Cup Qualifier against France at Tallaght Stadium. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Ireland attempted to broaden their horizons on the narrowest possible pitch, almost clipping France\u2019s wings enough before, like poor Icarus, crashing to earth in a bewildering final-quarter muddle.<\/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)\">Were it not for a player better known for scoring goals than stopping them, Ireland would have earned a deserved draw; PSG\u2019s Marie-Antoinette Katoto\u2019s incredulous block in injury time denied them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s World Cup qualifier: Ireland 1 France 2 Katie McCabe celebrates after opening the scoring for Ireland in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8495,61,60,19002,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-327660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-david-kelly","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-katie-mccabe","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327660","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=327660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}