{"id":392433,"date":"2026-04-11T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392433\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:17:08","slug":"verdon-fires-wexford-up-to-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392433\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdon fires Wexford up to second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wexford have risen to second in the SSE Airtricity Men&#8217;s First Division after a 1-0 win over Athlone Town at Ferrycarrig Park.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Verdon scored what proved to be the winner for Stephen Elliott&#8217;s side via a free kick midway through the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The result lifts Wexford up to 16 points, seven adrift of leaders and promotion favourites Cork City who have a game in hand after their match at Treaty United was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0410\/1567571-three-loi-fixtures-fall-by-the-wayside-due-to-heavy-rain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">postponed late on Friday due to an unplayable pitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UCD were on course to go second but find themselves third, just a point behind Wexford, following their 1-1 draw at second from bottom Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>The Students lead through Hugh Smith&#8217;s 56th minute goal in Tralee but a late equaliser from Matthew Britton ensured that Colin Healy&#8217;s hosts grabbed a point.<\/p>\n<p>Cobh Ramblers climbed up to fifth thanks to a 2-0 win at Finn Harps courtesy of second-half goals from Garry Buckley and Rhys Kelly-Noonan.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday will see Longford Town host fourth-placed Bray Wanderers in a 7.30pm kick-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wexford have risen to second in the SSE Airtricity Men&#8217;s First Division after a 1-0 win over Athlone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-392433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392433","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=392433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}