{"id":453951,"date":"2026-05-17T20:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453951\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:55:11","slug":"sinead-kissane-ireland-look-at-home-on-the-big-stage-in-promising-sign-of-what-is-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453951\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin\u00e9ad Kissane: Ireland look at home on the big stage in promising sign of what is to come"},"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\">Ruthless first-half performance sets tone for memorable day at the Aviva\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aoife Wafer scores Ireland\u2019s fourth try during the Women\u2019s Six Nations Championship match against Scotland at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Thomas Flinkow\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sports3460892.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 scores Ireland\u2019s fourth try during the Women\u2019s Six Nations Championship match against Scotland at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Thomas Flinkow\/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)\">This was the day when the home of Irish rugby really did become the home of Irish rugby. The cheer that greeted the end of Amhr\u00e1n na bhFiann for Ireland\u2019s first standalone Women\u2019s Six Nations game at the Aviva Stadium came with the tune of a record-breaking crowd of 31,294.<\/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)\">The noise was also a drumroll to signal how far women\u2019s rugby has come, how a gap has been bridged. This ground has belonged to Irish men\u2019s teams for a few centuries. Now the national women\u2019s team have their own keys to this home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruthless first-half performance sets tone for memorable day at the Aviva Aoife Wafer scores Ireland\u2019s fourth try during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4173],"class_list":["post-453951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sinead-kissane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453951","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=453951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}