{"id":576970,"date":"2026-07-09T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/576970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:06:15","slug":"corks-ringmahon-rangers-hit-with-five-year-ban-over-giving-fai-cup-walkover-to-bohemians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/576970\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork&#8217;s Ringmahon Rangers hit with five year ban over giving FAI Cup walkover to Bohemians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ringmahon Rangers have been banned from the FAI Cup for five years, after the governing body came down hard on their decision to hand a walkover to Bohemians in the country\u2019s senior Cup competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Fears over a low turnout at St Colman\u2019s Park, coupled with the unavailability of several players either attending or watching the decider led to their withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> It subsequently unfolded that Cork were well beaten by Galway in last Saturday\u2019s semi-final \u2013 prompting the Munster Senior League champions to post a black-humoured tweet seeking a pre-season friendly to fill the gap.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5149712_5_articleinline_HMZZ5wdXsAARUcc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"card-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The FAI haven\u2019t seen the funny side by slapping the club with three sanctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Most notably, a five-year ban from the FAI Cup is in place but the three-year suspension from the FAI Intermediate Cup \u2013 a competition in which they reached the last two finals \u2013 will also sting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Furthermore, a monetary fine of \u20ac5,000 has also been imposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The FAI highlighted the value of competition integrity in their statement: \u201cWe would like to remind all clubs of their obligations to fulfil fixtures in accordance with FAI Disciplinary Regulations and competition rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> \u201cThe FAI is committed to protecting the integrity of its competitions and ensuring that all fixtures are respected in the interests of participating clubs, players, officials, match officials, supporters and the wider football community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In accordance with the FAI Disciplinary Regulations, this decision may be appealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ringmahon Rangers have been banned from the FAI Cup for five years, after the governing body came down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1263,4488,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-576970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-sport","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116890408389795055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576970","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=576970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}