{"id":440871,"date":"2026-05-09T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:59:12","slug":"aoife-wafer-puts-in-dominant-display-as-ireland-douse-welsh-fire-with-bonus-point-womens-six-nations-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440871\/","title":{"rendered":"Aoife Wafer puts in dominant display as Ireland douse Welsh fire with bonus-point Women\u2019s Six Nations win"},"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\">Ireland 33 Wales 12\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aoife Wafer of Ireland is tackled by Lleucu George of Wales during the Women's Six Nations clash at Affidea Stadium in Belfast. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e55cd72a-9df1-451d-a222-3632dfa0029e.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)\">Aoife Wafer of Ireland is tackled by Lleucu George of Wales during the Women&#8217;s Six Nations clash at Affidea Stadium in Belfast. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile<\/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 will expect to finish their Women\u2019s Six Nations campaign as \u2018the best of the rest\u2019, with a home win against Scotland next weekend in Dublin.<\/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)\">A better performance will also crown a season of much promise, dappled with regrets. After completing this second leg of their task with relative ease, sprinkled with moments of needless anxiety against feisty opponents, their gradual improvements align with nagging inconsistencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland 33 Wales 12 Aoife Wafer of Ireland is tackled by Lleucu George of Wales during the Women&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8495,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-440871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-david-kelly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440871","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=440871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}