{"id":492081,"date":"2026-06-10T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492081\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:59:09","slug":"defeat-for-ireland-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492081\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeat for Ireland in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Ireland came up just short in their bid to qualify automatically for next year&#8217;s World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Carla Ward&#8217;s side were beaten 1-0 by France &#8211; a spectacular goal from Manchester United&#8217;s Melvine Malard proved the difference in Grenoble.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach believes that narrowly losing out to the team ranked 6th in the world shows how far Ireland have come this campaign:<\/p>\n<p>Ireland now go into the playoffs later this year, and will find out their opponents next Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland came up just short in their bid to qualify automatically for next year&#8217;s World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-492081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492081","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=492081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}