{"id":450127,"date":"2026-05-15T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450127\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:45:12","slug":"monaghan-earns-starting-berth-as-ireland-look-to-end-6-nations-on-a-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450127\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaghan earns starting berth as Ireland look to end 6 Nations on a high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmfm.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\/6a06fcf4e1384.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Sam Monaghan &#8211; will start against the Scots in Ireland&#8217;s closing 6 Nations match on Sunday<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Navan woman comes into the second row for the closing fixture of the campaign\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Ireland Ladies team for Sunday&#8217;s 6 Nations finale against Scotland at Lansdowne Road has been named.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a start place for Navan native Sam Monaghan &#8211; having started on the replacements bench up until now, the lock comes into the engine room alongside Fiona Tuite.<\/p>\n<p>Sam will be winning a 31st cap for her country.<\/p>\n<p>Erin King will captain the team at openside flanker.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s match has a 2.30pm kick-off time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a06fcda403c8.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=62f5d1bc-976b-45a1-a0cb-ee4acf856ae1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f645855.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Sport Sam Monaghan &#8211; will start against the Scots in Ireland&#8217;s closing 6 Nations match on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4263,4262,61,60,3323,4259,4258,4265,4266,4264,4260,4261,43],"class_list":["post-450127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-drogheda-radio","tag-dundalk-radio","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-job-search","tag-lm-fm","tag-lmfm","tag-lmfm-breakfast-show","tag-lmfm-late-lunch","tag-lmfm-podcast","tag-louth-radio","tag-meath-radio","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450127","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=450127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}