{"id":671740,"date":"2026-11-01T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671740\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:24:11","slug":"captain-erin-king-declares-were-history-makers-now-as-ireland-beat-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671740\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Erin King declares ‘We’re history makers now’ as Ireland beat South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland’s captain, Erin King, couldn’t be more proud of her team and has officially declared them ‘history makers,’ following their win over South Africa in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

The girls took on the Springbok Women again in the second round of this year’s WXV Global Series.<\/p>\n

Beating them 38-17, the girls are truly making their mark in the world of women’s rugby. <\/p>\n

\"31 Photo by Shaun Roy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons stole the show with a brilliant hat-trick as Scott Bernard’s side completed an historic 2-0 series clean sweep on their first-ever women’s tour of South Africa.<\/p>\n

Having won their first test match 40-27, Ireland were determined not to sit back for the second game. <\/p>\n

South Africa got off to a flying start with Unam Tose’s early try, but Erin responded just before B\u00e9ibhinn crossed to extend Ireland’s <\/a>advantage.<\/p>\n

\"3607502 Photo by Shaun Roy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

The Springbok Women refused to give up, with captain Sizophila Solontsi scoring before the break and Vainah Ubisi putting South Africa 17-14 ahead after 58 minutes.<\/p>\n

Saving the best until last, Ireland came back fighting. <\/p>\n

B\u00e9ibhinn raced over for her second try to restore the visitors’ lead, with Aoife Dalton sweeping through. <\/p>\n

\"3607860\" Photo by Shaun Roy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

Speaking after the game, Erin <\/a>looked back on how Ireland had played, stating, ‘We’re delighted with that. South Africa brought it to us, we had to stick to our processes.’<\/p>\n

‘We spoke about being the first (women’s) Irish team to come to South Africa and win a test, and we did…We’re history makers now.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s captain, Erin King, couldn’t be more proud of her team and has officially declared them ‘history makers,’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-671740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671740","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=671740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}