{"id":84996,"date":"2025-10-16T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84996\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:31:08","slug":"league-of-ireland-previews-team-news-talking-points-and-verdicts-ahead-of-fridays-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84996\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Ireland previews: Team news, talking points and verdicts ahead of Friday\u2019s games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Noonan, left, with teammate Graham Burke, is available for Shamrock Rovers' title push against St Patrick's Athletic on Friday night. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d749ed2d-8a60-44bb-b308-d8becd3caf35.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael Noonan, left, with teammate Graham Burke, is available for Shamrock Rovers&#8217; title push against St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic on Friday night. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">DROGHEDA UNITED v CORK CITY (Sullivan &amp; Lambe Park, 7.45)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Team news: Elicha Ahui is the only absentee for United. Relegated Cork can now afford to make changes, with possible game time for the likes of Charlie Lutz, Kaedyn Kamara and a fit-again Conor Drinan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Noonan, left, with teammate Graham Burke, is available for Shamrock Rovers&#8217; title push against St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,14645,14641,14646,14640,61,60,43,11113,25201,14644,16489,6513],"class_list":["post-84996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-bohemian-fc","tag-cork-city","tag-derry-city","tag-drogheda-united-fc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-shelbourne","tag-sligo-rovers","tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84996","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=84996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}