{"id":624813,"date":"2026-09-14T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624813\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:08:09","slug":"irish-premier-division-derry-city-and-waterford-share-the-spoils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624813\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Premier Division: Derry City and Waterford share the spoils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derry City were twice pegged back by Waterford for a 2-2 draw in their Irish Premier Division clash at Waterford RSC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The result edges Derry City to within three points of fourth-place Dundalk who were thrashed 4-0 by St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic who go top on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In wet and windy conditions, it was the visitors to Waterford who made the brighter start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adam O&#8217;Reilly let fly with a stunning 40-yard strike into the to corner which gave the Candystripes a ninth-minute lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts drew level on the stroke of half time as Evan McLaughlin buried from close range after Jorgen Voilas saw his initial effort blocked down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Clarke went close to restoring the lead for Mark Connolly&#8217;s side four minutes into the second period, but two minutes later, Michael Duffy found the net with a curling effort with his right boot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their lead was short-lived as Waterford were back on terms for a second time just six minutes later as Padraig Amond got on the end of Couto&#8217;s delivery from a corner to nod home at the back post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chances came and went for both but neither could find a winner as Derry City claimed a 14th draw of the season with the result keeping Waterford just above the relegation play-off position on scoring difference from Drogheda United who were 2-1 winners at Shelbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derry City were twice pegged back by Waterford for a 2-2 draw in their Irish Premier Division clash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-624813","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\/624813","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=624813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}