{"id":452288,"date":"2026-05-16T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452288\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:53:14","slug":"league-of-ireland-serves-up-another-dramatic-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452288\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Ireland Serves Up Another Dramatic Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Saturday, 16 May 2026 11:41\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\/05\/6284f6262ebe0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Shamrock Rovers remain top, but St Pats failed to close the gap after their loss.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The League of Ireland Premier Division title race took another twist on Friday night as both of the top two were beaten.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders Shamrock Rovers suffered a 1-0 defeat away to Dundalk, while St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic missed the chance to close the gap as they were beaten 1-0 by Shelbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Those results mean Rovers stay top on 34 points, with St Pat&#8217;s three points behind on 31.<\/p>\n<p>Bohemians remain firmly in the hunt after a 2-1 win over Drogheda United, lifting them to 28 points, just six off the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Derry City were held to a 2-2 draw by Waterford.<\/p>\n<p>Attention now turns to Monday night&#8217;s meeting between Sligo Rovers and Galway United, both sides looking to create some space above Waterford at the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, 16 May 2026 11:41 By Mark Hanbidge Shamrock Rovers remain top, but St Pats failed to close&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-452288","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\/452288","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=452288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}