{"id":394995,"date":"2026-04-12T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394995\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:48:08","slug":"ul-bohemian-to-face-blackrock-in-all-ireland-league-decider-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394995\/","title":{"rendered":"UL Bohemian to face Blackrock in All-Ireland League decider \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Reigning champions UL Bohemian and 2023 winners Blackrock College will meet in the Energia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ail\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ail\/\">All-Ireland League<\/a> Women\u2019s final on Sunday, April 26th in the traditional Aviva Stadium double-header.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In this weekend\u2019s semi-finals, UL Bohemian edged past Old Belvedere to win 24-17 at Annacotty thanks to final-quarter from Chloe Pearse and Eabha Nic Dhonnacha before Jess Keating\u2019s try in the last play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Blackrock denied Railway Union a third successive appearance in the decider final, triumphing 18-10. Both sides scored two tries, \u2018Rock through Maggie Boylan and Lauren Farrell McCabe, while Caoimhe O\u2019Sullivan Roche and Sarah O\u2019Donnell were the providers for Railway, who were frustrated by the holding of an Ireland under-20 camp this weekend. A conversion and two late penalties from Ella Durkan proved the difference, earning Blackrock the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Meanwhile, Enniskillen RFC completed a historic season for the club, the men\u2019s team emulating the feat of the women\u2019s side this season in securing their first-ever promotion to the All-Ireland League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Fermanagh club, with former player Rob Baloucoune sometimes serving as backs coach, defeated Boyne RFC 46-8 in the Provincial Championship Final at the Palace Grounds. Chris Balfour, Henry Keys, James Trotter, Charlie Logan, and Steve and Sam Balfour scored their six tries, with Eddie Keys landing five conversions and two penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Weekend results<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">AIL Women\u2019s Division Semi-Finals: UL Bohemian 24 Old Belvedere 17; Blackrock College 18 Railway Union 10<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">AIL Women\u2019s Division Conference Semi-Finals: Wicklow 62 Ennis 10; Galwegians 38 Ballincollig 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">AIL Provincial Championship Final: Enniskillen 46 Boyne 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning champions UL Bohemian and 2023 winners Blackrock College will meet in the Energia All-Ireland League Women\u2019s final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34860,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-394995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ail","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394995","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=394995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}