{"id":417829,"date":"2026-04-26T02:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417829\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:51:18","slug":"irelands-hopes-of-a-first-womens-six-nations-crown-crushed-after-defeat-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417829\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s hopes of a first Women\u2019s Six Nations crown crushed after defeat in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">France: 26 Ireland: 7\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stacey Flood of Ireland is tackled by France players Pauline Barrat, left, and Siobhan Soqeta during the Women's Six Nations Rugby Championship at Stade Marcel Michelin in Clermont, France. Photo by Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/83af014d-de31-4a91-84f1-7dc68c292d7b.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)\">Stacey Flood of Ireland is tackled by France players Pauline Barrat, left, and Siobhan Soqeta during the Women&#8217;s Six Nations Rugby Championship at Stade Marcel Michelin in Clermont, France. Photo by Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p>Sin\u00e9ad Kissane, Stade Marcel-Michelin<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 23:11<\/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)\">Ireland\u2019s pursuit of a first ever Women\u2019s Six Nations win on French soil fell short at Stade Marcel-Michelin as France, once again, proved too strong.<\/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)\">The French keep their unbeaten home record against Ireland intact as they outscored Scott Bemand\u2019s side four tries to one. The game was level 7-7 at half-time but France showed they are an excellent second half team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France: 26 Ireland: 7 Stacey Flood of Ireland is tackled by France players Pauline Barrat, left, and Siobhan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-417829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417829","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=417829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}