{"id":400426,"date":"2026-04-15T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:28:09","slug":"leinster-u-20-quarter-final-between-westmeath-and-kildare-abandoned-at-half-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400426\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster U-20 quarter-final between Westmeath and Kildare abandoned at half-time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7d69c736-d9eb-4b4c-808c-46f53f3b725f.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)\">Photo: Sportsfile<\/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)\">Dublin referee Ian Howley called off the Westmeath v Kildare Leinster U-20 football championship quarter-final at half-time in very poor weather conditions in Kinnegad after inspecting the pitch with both managers.<\/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)\">There were only two scores from play in the entire half, which went on for almost 38 minutes due to Kildare\u2019s TJ Nolan needing lengthy treatment for an injury approaching the interval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Sportsfile Dublin referee Ian Howley called off the Westmeath v Kildare Leinster U-20 football championship quarter-final at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,3771,112,74467],"class_list":{"0":"post-400426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-kildare-gaa","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-westmeath-gaa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400426","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=400426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}