{"id":546806,"date":"2026-07-13T03:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546806\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:56:35","slug":"fermanagh-book-all-ireland-ladies-final-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546806\/","title":{"rendered":"Fermanagh book All-Ireland ladies final return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fermanagh will hope it is a case of third time lucky when they take on Roscommon in this year\u2019s TG4 All-Ireland intermediate championship final at Croke Park on Sunday, August 2.<\/p>\n<p>Fermanagh were beaten on the two occasions they previously reached the intermediate final.<\/p>\n<p>However, they will hope to get their hands on the Mary Quinn Memorial Cup after edging out Down by 1-11 to 0-12 in the semi-final in Clones.<\/p>\n<p>Eimear Smyth led the way for Fermanagh, scoring all of her side\u2019s total other than one point. Smyth\u2019s haul of 1-10 included just three frees.<\/p>\n<p>Fermanagh will meet Roscommon in the final. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shannonside.ie\/sport\/roscommon-stun-westmeath-into-all-ireland-final-292935\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roscommon saw off the challenge of neighbours Westmeath by 2-14 to 2-10 in the other semi-final.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The game looked set for extra-time. However, Lauren Shanagher scored a goal and a free from Aisling Feely to secure Roscommon\u2019s place in the final.<\/p>\n<p>For Roscommon, who lifted the title in Mullingar in 2005 on the only other occasion they reached the intermediate decider, it will be a first trip to Croke Park since they won the junior crown there 25 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fermanagh will hope it is a case of third time lucky when they take on Roscommon in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99576,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-546806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fermanagh","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546806","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=546806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}