{"id":616593,"date":"2026-09-06T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616593\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T20:46:13","slug":"bohs-host-waterford-as-fai-cup-semi-final-draw-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616593\/","title":{"rendered":"Bohs host Waterford as FAI Cup semi-final draw made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two most in-form sides in the Premier Division will face off in the FAI Cup semi-final, as Bohemians host Waterford FC in Dalymount Park, while Galway United have home advantage against Derry City in the other semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Derry overcame a sluggish start to beat Dundalk 4-2 in the Brandywell to complete the semi-final quartet and they are bound for Eamonn Deacy Park for the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Devitt&#8217;s late winner on Friday night saw Galway win away to Drogheda United, keeping alive their quest to win a first FAI Cup since 1991.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udfc6FAI Cup semi-final\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Bohemians v Waterford<br \/>Galway United v Derry City<\/p>\n<p>Chris Shields and Gareth McGlynn give their reaction to the draw, with games to be played the 9\/10\/11 October <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RTESport\" rel=\"nofollow\">#RTESport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r91TZxmTo9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/r91TZxmTo9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RTEsport\/status\/2096646856851816628\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After their dramatic penalty shootout win over St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic, Bohemians are back on their home patch for the semi-final, taking on Graham Coughlan&#8217;s Waterford, who are unbeaten in their last 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be the last ever FAI Cup game at the old Dalymount Park before planned renovation works begin in the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Bohs have lost two FAI Cup finals to Pat&#8217;s in 2021 and 2023 and have not won the Cup since their double-winning campaign of 2008, while Waterford&#8217;s last Cup success is dated back to 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Club Orange Men&#8217;s FAI Cup Semi-Finals (Ties played, weekend 11 October) <\/p>\n<p>Bohemians v Waterford<\/p>\n<p>Galway United v Derry City<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two most in-form sides in the Premier Division will face off in the FAI Cup semi-final, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-616593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616593","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=616593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}