{"id":416155,"date":"2026-04-25T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416155\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:56:08","slug":"bray-hold-leaders-cork-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416155\/","title":{"rendered":"Bray hold leaders Cork City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Runaway SSE Airtricity League First Division leaders Cork City were held to a draw for just the third time this season as Bray Wanderers battled their way to a 1-1 draw at the Carlisle Grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Seagulls hit the front in the 28th minute after Ifu Achara capitalised on a rebound from Ben McCormack&#8217;s long-range strike that ricocheted off the woodwork.<\/p>\n<p>Cork City equalised eight minutes into the second half via a spectacular 30-yard piledriver from Conor Drinan.<\/p>\n<p>Despite relentless attacking and missed opportunities from both sides, including penalty appeals and further interventions by the woodwork, the teams shared the spoils.<\/p>\n<p>UCD schooled Treaty United in a 3-0 win at Markets Field to leave the hosts rooted to the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n<p>The Students opened the scoring in the 14th minute when Hugh Smith turned home a croner.<\/p>\n<p>Six minutes later, Charles Akinrintayo doubled the advantage, pitting the finishing touches to a cross at the back post.<\/p>\n<p>Smith completed his brace in the 68th minute, swivelling and firing home in a dominant win.<\/p>\n<p>Athlone Town defeated Finn Harps 2-1 as Harps old boy Gradi Lomboto decided matters at Finn Park. Callum Cleary headed the opener in the 54th minute before Gavin McAteer equalised in the 69th minute.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lomboto struck at the death as he hammered home off the crossbar to inflict a third straight defeat on the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>In the night&#8217;s other encounter, an early goal from Mikie Rowe and a late one from Gavin Hodgins saw Wexford record a 2-0 win over Cobh Ramblers at Ferrycarrig Park.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Arsenal v Lyon in the UEFA Women&#8217;s Champions League on Sunday from 3pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Runaway SSE Airtricity League First Division leaders Cork City were held to a draw for just the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-416155","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416155","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=416155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}