{"id":428795,"date":"2026-05-02T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428795\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:04:07","slug":"daly-departs-winless-waterford-after-rovers-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428795\/","title":{"rendered":"Daly departs winless Waterford after Rovers loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waterford head coach Jon Daly and assistant coach Richard Foster have left their positions at the RSC, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0501\/1571387-shamrock-rovers-do-just-about-enough-to-edge-waterford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The basement club lost 1-0 to Shamrock Rovers <\/a>in the League of Ireland Premier Division on Friday night, meaning they are still searching for their first league win of the season 13 games in.<\/p>\n<p>Daly took charge of the side ahead of the 2026 season having been assistant manager at Galway United the previous year. <\/p>\n<p>While still chasing a first league win, the side have drawn three of their last five games having endured a five-game losing streak prior to that. <\/p>\n<p>Club coaches Brian Murphy and David Breen will take charge for Monday&#8217;s bank holiday clash with Dundalk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Waterford FC can confirm Head Coach Jon Daly and Assistant Coach Richard Foster have left the club with immediate effect,&#8221; a statement read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to thank Jon and Richard for their efforts whilst at the club and wish them well for the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First-team coaches Brian Murphy and David Breen will take control of the side for Monday&#8217;s game against Dundalk at the RSC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Lyon v Arsenal in the UEFA Women&#8217;s Champions League semi-finals on Saturday from 1.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford head coach Jon Daly and assistant coach Richard Foster have left their positions at the RSC, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-428795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428795","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=428795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}