{"id":47417,"date":"2025-09-27T20:22:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47417\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:22:32","slug":"ireland-retain-womens-world-cup-darts-title-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47417\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland retain women\u2019s World Cup darts title \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland have retained their women\u2019s WDF World Cup darts title in seeing off Australia in Saturday final in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dubliner Katie Sheldon won the opening game for Ireland before Australia struck back with their over leg win of the clash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Captain Robyn Byrne from Dublin, Donegal\u2019s Denise Cassidy and Kilkenny\u2019s Aoife McCormack followed Sheldon\u2019s example, each winning at least two games apiece to blow the Aussies away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Speaking after the win, manager Kevin Devaney paid tribute to his team. \u201cThese lades really are class,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cTo put in a performance like that in a final is super but they have been brilliant all the way through the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The result also sees Ireland take gold as the overall best ranked women\u2019s team, taking the top spot over Japan in second and England in third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland have retained their women\u2019s WDF World Cup darts title in seeing off Australia in Saturday final in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23958,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-47417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-darts","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47417","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=47417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}