{"id":561333,"date":"2026-07-21T20:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:29:22","slug":"pats-and-hoops-collide-in-fai-cup-third-round-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561333\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat&#8217;s and Hoops collide in FAI Cup third round draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Patrick&#8217;s Athletic will have home advantage against holders Shamrock Rovers in the plum tie in the Club Orange Men\u2019s FAI Cup third round draw.<\/p>\n<p>The draw, made live on RT\u00c9 Radio 1, saw Stephen Bradley\u2019s side, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0721\/1584333-hoops-face-uphill-struggle-after-defeat-in-armenia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who were in the midst of a Champions League qualifier defeat in Armenia<\/a>, handed an away assignment at Richmond Park.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry FC have been rewarded with a trip to Sligo Rovers after their shock win against Shelbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry famously defeated the Bit O\u2019Red in last year\u2019s quarter-final, before bowing out at the penultimate stage to eventual champions Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght.<\/p>\n<p>Bohemians will host Longford Town in a repeat of the 2001 decider, when Tony O&#8217;Connor scored the winner for the Dalymount side. <\/p>\n<p>Galway United will welcome Bray Wanderers to Eamonn Deacy Park. <\/p>\n<p>2024 winners Drogheda United will have to make the trip to Cork to face College Corinthians, while 12-times winners Dundalk have been drawn at home against Castlebar Celtic from Mayo.<\/p>\n<p>The games will be played on the weekend ending Sunday, 16 August.<\/p>\n<p>FAI Cup third round draw <\/p>\n<p>Bohemians v Longford Town<br \/>College Corinthians v Drogheda United<br \/>Galway United v Bray Wanderers<br \/>Dundalk v Castlebar Celtic<br \/>UCD v Derry City<br \/>Waterford v Athlone Town<br \/>Sligo Rovers v Kerry<br \/>St. Patrick&#8217;s Athletic v Shamrock Rovers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Patrick&#8217;s Athletic will have home advantage against holders Shamrock Rovers in the plum tie in the Club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-561333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561333","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=561333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}