{"id":392143,"date":"2026-04-10T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:08:07","slug":"three-league-of-ireland-fixtures-postponed-due-to-unplayable-pitches-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392143\/","title":{"rendered":"Three League of Ireland fixtures postponed due to unplayable pitches \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/league-of-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/league-of-ireland\/\">League of Ireland<\/a> fixtures due to be played on Friday evening have been postponed after failed pitch inspections following heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In the Premier Division, Galway United\u2019s hosting of Shelbourne was called off after the pitch at Eamonn Deacy Park was deemed unplayable for the 7.45pm kick-off \u201cafter a late sudden torrential rain downpour\u201d, a statement from the league said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Drogheda\u2019s trip to Waterford was also postponed due to heavy rain, as was the First Division fixture between Treaty United and Cork City which had been due to be played at Markets Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The league said new fixture dates will be issued in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three League of Ireland fixtures due to be played on Friday evening have been postponed after failed pitch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,2539,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-392143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-league-of-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392143","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=392143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}