{"id":336969,"date":"2026-03-09T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336969\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:33:10","slug":"irelands-men-and-women-hockey-teams-book-their-spot-at-this-years-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336969\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Men And Women Hockey Teams Book Their Spot At This Year’s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Monday, 9 March 2026 12:38\n <\/p>\n

\n By Emma O’Connor\n <\/p>\n

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\n Image: hockeyireland.ie<\/p>\n

\n Ireland will be competing at the finals this summer for the first time in eight years.\n <\/p>\n

Ireland’s women’s hockey team booked their spot at this year’s World Cup after as 3-1 penalty shootout over Japan in Santiago, Chile.<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper Elizabeth Murphy was the hero whilst Sarah Hawkshaw, Hannah McLoughlin, and Jessica McMaster all converted.<\/p>\n

Ireland’s men’s hockey team are heading to World Cup after finishing their qualifying tournament with a 100 per cent record.<\/p>\n

Gregory Williams hit the net twice in a 2-1 victory over France in Chile last night.<\/p>\n

Ireland will be competing at the finals this summer for the first time in eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 9 March 2026 12:38 By Emma O’Connor Image: hockeyireland.ie Ireland will be competing at the finals this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-336969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336969","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=336969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}