{"id":443581,"date":"2026-05-11T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443581\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:27:11","slug":"limerick-man-to-represent-republic-of-ireland-at-world-cup-of-darts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443581\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick man to represent Republic of Ireland at World Cup of Darts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a02055f2f44a.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Limerick man Willie O&#8217;Connor and Mickie Mansell will represent The Republic of Ireland at this year&#8217;s World Cup of Darts.\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p>Mansell had previously represented Northern Ireland, but switched his allegiance earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor finished as a runner up with Ireland\u00a0alongside Steve Lennon in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Rock and Daryl Gurney will once again join forces, as they look to defend their title.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 World Cup of Darts will take place between 11-14 June at the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=49bb71e2-4823-448e-b0e8-311158962de3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f76f434.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Sport Via Getty Images Limerick man Willie O&#8217;Connor and Mickie Mansell will represent The Republic of Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612,43],"class_list":["post-443581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-radio","tag-limerick-today","tag-limericks-live95fm","tag-live-95","tag-live95fm","tag-live95fm-homepage","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443581","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=443581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}