{"id":405034,"date":"2026-04-18T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405034\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:38:10","slug":"ireland-target-first-win-as-italy-visit-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405034\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Target First Win as Italy Visit Galway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Saturday, 18 April 2026 11:48\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Mark Hanbidge\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/68c3f67eaae32.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Girls in Green look to bounce back on home soil after a tough opening to their Six Nations campaign.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ireland women&#8217;s rugby team are back in action this evening, April 18th, at Dexcom Stadium in Galway, taking on Italy at 5.40pm in Round 2 of the Women&#8217;s Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p>After last week&#8217;s 33-12 defeat away to England, Ireland will be aiming to get their campaign up and running, with a much-improved second-half showing at Twickenham offering some encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>There reason for confidence too, with Ireland running out convincing 54-12 winners when the sides met last year. However, this Italian side has shown signs of progress and will provide a stern test.<\/p>\n<p>With home fixtures a key target in this campaign, Ireland will be looking to deliver a strong performance in Galway and give supporters something to cheer for early on in the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, 18 April 2026 11:48 By Mark Hanbidge The Girls in Green look to bounce back on home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-405034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405034","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=405034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}