{"id":378605,"date":"2026-04-02T17:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:48:41","slug":"league-of-ireland-previews-team-news-talking-points-and-verdicts-for-fridays-premier-division-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378605\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Ireland previews: Team news, talking points and verdicts for Friday\u2019s Premier Division games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775152121_411_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 MD9 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)\">DROGHEDA UNITED v BOHEMIANS (Sullivan &amp; Lambe Park, 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: Scott Brady and Owen Lambe are out long-term for Drogheda. Bohs await the return of ex-Drogheda man Douglas James-Taylor following a five-game absence, as Markuss Strods and Hugh Martin report back after goal-scoring contributions on underage international duty with Latvia and Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League of Ireland MD9 Preview DROGHEDA UNITED v BOHEMIANS (Sullivan &amp; Lambe Park, 7.45) Team news: Scott Brady&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,14645,14646,14640,2538,16488,61,60,43,11113,25201,14644,16489,6513],"class_list":{"0":"post-378605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-bohemian-fc","10":"tag-derry-city","11":"tag-drogheda-united-fc","12":"tag-dundalk-fc","13":"tag-galway-united-fc","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-shamrock-rovers","18":"tag-shelbourne","19":"tag-sligo-rovers","20":"tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc","21":"tag-waterford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378605","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=378605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}