{"id":440298,"date":"2026-05-09T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440298\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:33:11","slug":"ireland-looking-to-strengthen-six-nations-position-against-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440298\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Looking to Strengthen Six Nations Position Against Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Saturday, 9 May 2026 12:26\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            Ireland host Wales in Belfast with kick-off at 6.30pm.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ireland are back in Women&#8217;s Six Nations action this evening when they take on Wales at Kingspan Stadium in Belfast, with kick-off at 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Bemand&#8217;s side have won one of their opening three matches, and know another victory would keep them on course for a strong finish in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland defeated Wales comfortably in both of their meetings over the last two fixtures, and will be targeting a bonus-point win.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, England face Italy at 2pm, and France take on Scotland at 4.15pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, 9 May 2026 12:26 By Mark Hanbidge Ireland host Wales in Belfast with kick-off at 6.30pm. Ireland&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-440298","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\/440298","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=440298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440298\/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=440298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}