Three League of Ireland matches, including the Munster Derby between Treaty United and Cork City, have been called off at late notice on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Just over an hour before kick-off at Market\u2019s Field, Treaty posted on social media that there was set to be a pitch inspection at 6.50pm, 55 minutes before the First Division fixture was scheduled to begin.<\/p>\n
Then at 6.54pm, the Limerick club posted an update confirming that the match had been called off \u201cdue to a waterlogged pitch\u201d, with the visitors having already gone as far as announcing their starting 11.<\/p>\n
Two Premier Division matches also fell foul to the terrible weather conditions with Galway United\u2019s clash with Shelbourne at Eamon Deasy Park and Waterford\u2019s game with Drogheda United at the RSC failing their own checks.<\/p>\n
“The club apologises for the inconvenience caused from this evening\u2019s postponement,” said Treaty United.<\/p>\n
“The weather conditions have been out of our control and we appreciate that many fans had planned to attend the match this evening.<\/p>\n
“Tickets from tonight\u2019s game will be valid for the re-scheduled game with Cork City – or a full refund is available from the club by contacting info@treatyunitedfc.com.”<\/p>\n
The League of Ireland also released the following statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe League of Ireland can confirm that Galway United v Shelbourne in the SSE Airtricity Men\u2019s Premier Division has been postponed after a late sudden torrential rain downpour which has made the pitch unplayable following a pitch inspection from match officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can also confirm that Waterford v Drogheda United in the SSE Airtricity Men\u2019s Premier Division has been postponed after the pitch has been deemed unplayable following a pitch inspection due to heavy rain.<\/p>\n
\u201cTreaty United v Cork City in the SSE Airtricity Men\u2019s First Division has also been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch after a late torrential rain downpour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will issue a new date for the fixtures in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three League of Ireland matches, including the Munster Derby between Treaty United and Cork City, have been called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25403,61,60,2539,43],"class_list":["post-392099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-city-fc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-league-of-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392099","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=392099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}