{"id":665085,"date":"2026-10-25T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/665085\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T16:58:17","slug":"ireland-secure-six-try-victory-over-south-africa-in-wxv-global-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/665085\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Secure Six-Try Victory Over South Africa In WXV Global Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Sunday, 25 October 2026 at 12:30\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Mark Hanbidge\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792947497_441_6970fafae438e.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The victory marks a positive response from Ireland following their earlier defeat to the United States.\n        <\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Ireland&#8217;s women&#8217;s rugby team have recorded a 40-27 victory over South Africa in the opening match of their WXV Global Series double-header in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Bemand&#8217;s side crossed for six tries at Athlone Stadium, recovering from a difficult first half to take a 21-17 lead into the break.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Djougang led the scoring with two tries, while Aoife Dalton, Beibhinn Parsons, Jane Clohessy and Erin King also touched down for Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>A strong start to the second half helped Ireland establish a commanding advantage, although South Africa continued to threaten throughout the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The victory marks a positive response from Ireland following their earlier defeat to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides will meet again in Cape Town next Saturday, October 31st, for the second match of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 25 October 2026 at 12:30 By Mark Hanbidge The victory marks a positive response from Ireland following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-665085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665085","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=665085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}