{"id":178430,"date":"2025-11-13T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/178430\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:22:11","slug":"aoife-wafer-admits-frustration-with-french-biting-controversy-i-dont-know-what-came-into-her-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/178430\/","title":{"rendered":"Aoife Wafer admits frustration with French biting controversy: \u2018I don\u2019t know what came into her head\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aoife Wafer with her Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Women\u2019s XV\u2019s player of the year award.  Photo: Ben Brady\/Inpho\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/itersAwardWinners03.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)\">Aoife Wafer with her Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Women\u2019s XV\u2019s player of the year award.  Photo: Ben Brady\/Inpho<\/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)\">Aoife Wafer insists the controversy around the bite she suffered from France forward Axelle Berthoumieu during Ireland\u2019s World Cup quarter-final will not define her career.<\/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)\">Wafer, who was this week awarded the Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland women\u2019s XV player of the year for the second year in a row, admits frustration with how the incident was dealt with in the knockout game in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoife Wafer with her Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Women\u2019s XV\u2019s player of the year award. Photo: Ben&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,34991,12392,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-178430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","12":"tag-sinead-kissane","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115542369721955003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}