{"id":404101,"date":"2026-04-17T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404101\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:21:08","slug":"ireland-vs-italy-womens-six-nations-preview-with-erin-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404101\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland vs Italy (Women&#8217;s Six Nations Preview with Erin King)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballinasloe\u2019s Beibhinn Parsons and Kilconly\u2019s Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald have maintained their starting places in the Ireland team for Saturday\u2019s Six Nations clash against Italy, while Connacht&#8217;s Anna McGann is also in the matchday squad.<\/p>\n<p>Following their opening day 33-12 defeat to England, Ireland are looking to bounce back against an Italian outfit who suffered a 40-7 reversal against France.\u00a0 And even though Ireland won 54-12 when they met last year, the previous two tests went in favour of Le Azzure.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland captain Erin King was a try scorer in Round 1 and she looked ahead to the game with Galway Bay FM&#8217;s William Davies, who asked her first how the Captain&#8217;s Run went.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off at Dexcom Stadium on Saturday is 5.40pm and we&#8217;ll have updates here on Galway Bay FM.<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Galway Bay FM \u2013 your Number 1 station for <a id=\"LPlnk143958\" title=\"https:\/\/www.galwaybayfm.ie\/sports\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galwaybayfm.ie\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Sport<\/a>. For the latest updates, results and fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Listen live\u00a0\u00a0to Galway Bay FM Sport on the hour from 7am to 6pm (Monday to Friday).<\/p>\n<p>For all your local, national and international sports commentaries, fixtures and results check out Over the Line\u00a0on Fridays from 7pm to 10pm, Saturday and Sunday Sports from 1pm \u2013 6pm and Over the Line on Mondays from 8pm to 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>Check us out on <a id=\"LPlnk703121\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GBFMSports\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GBFMSports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Facebook<\/a>, <a id=\"LPlnk529080\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/galwaybayfm\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/galwaybayfm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and <a id=\"LPlnk621101\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gbfmsports\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gbfmsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballinasloe\u2019s Beibhinn Parsons and Kilconly\u2019s Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald have maintained their starting places in the Ireland team for Saturday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,177982,43],"class_list":["post-404101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-vs-italy-women","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404101","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=404101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}