{"id":490221,"date":"2026-06-09T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490221\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:18:08","slug":"four-previous-occasions-where-irelands-women-upset-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490221\/","title":{"rendered":"Four previous occasions where Ireland\u2019s women upset the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may have been a friendly but the Irish team beating a Aussie side who\u2019d finished fourth at the Olympics and were 22 places above in the rankings was an indicator of imminent qualifying success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sam Kerr\u2019s 100th cap didn\u2019t go to plan as the striker was kept quiet and Louise Quinn headed Ireland to a memorable victory at Tallaght.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">April 12, 2022: Sweden 1 Ireland 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Just yards from where Sonia O\u2019Sullivan won gold in the inaugural World Championship 5,000m, 27 years later another epic Irish performance at the Gamla Ullevi stadium made the world sit up and take notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This Swedish team were reigning Olympic silver medallists, bronze at the World Cup, and had designs on affirming their place in Australia by beating Ireland until Katie McCabe fired the visitors ahead. Kosovre Asllani\u2019s late equaliser didn\u2019t dampen the feat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">July 16, 2024: Ireland 3 Netherlands 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pairc U\u00ed Chaoimh was rocking for it\u2019s first hosting of a competitive international as Ireland ended a six-game losing streak by scalping Herv\u00e9 Renard\u2019s French.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Denise O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s low drive got the Euro qualifier rout rolling before a crowd of 18,399, with Julie-Ann Russell and Anna Patten copperfastening the triumph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">June 5, 2026: Ireland 3 Netherlands 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Another cracker by the Lee came against a Dutch side with several survivors in their team from the side that lifted Euro gold in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Being assured of third spot and a seeded playoff offered a freedom for Ireland to take risk, culminating in Amber Barrett\u2019s last-minute winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may have been a friendly but the Irish team beating a Aussie side who\u2019d finished fourth at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,18998],"class_list":["post-490221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-wnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490221","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=490221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}