{"id":447944,"date":"2026-05-14T05:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447944\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:33:12","slug":"from-ashbourne-to-the-aviva-the-ireland-womens-rugby-team-have-come-a-long-way-in-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447944\/","title":{"rendered":"From Ashbourne to the Aviva: the Ireland women\u2019s rugby team have come a long way in 11 years"},"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\">Green Wave is building momentum, but they still need more of the public to get on board\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Captain Erin King and teammates (from left) Sam Monaghan, Stacey Flood, Eve Higgins, Linda Djougang and B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons take a selfie after a media conference at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/abb5a941-07bf-4b96-a2c8-a9f1270afbf3.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)\">Captain Erin King and teammates (from left) Sam Monaghan, Stacey Flood, Eve Higgins, Linda Djougang and B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons take a selfie after a media conference at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">On Sunday, Ireland play Scotland in their final game of the 2026 Women\u2019s Six Nations. Working in and around the sport are some former players: Niamh Briggs coaching, Nora Stapleton in Sport Ireland, and Larissa Muldoon with the IRFU.<\/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)\">Before there were games in the Affidea Stadium, Dexcom, or Energia Park, there was Ashbourne RFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Wave is building momentum, but they still need more of the public to get on board Captain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43,128197,157733],"class_list":["post-447944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-shp","tag-signature-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447944","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=447944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}