{"id":382537,"date":"2025-08-29T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382537\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:28:11","slug":"midlands-players-named-to-start-for-irelands-world-cup-clash-with-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382537\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlands Players Named To Start For Ireland&#8217;s World Cup Clash With Spain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 29 August 2025 14:01\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68b1a41926791.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Scott Bemand&#8217;s side secured victory over Japan in their opening fixture.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ireland head coach Scott Bemand has made seven changes to his team for Sunday&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup clash with Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Co-captain Edel McMahon is among the players to drop out of the side after last weekend&#8217;s win over Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Offaly&#8217;s Aoife Dalton retains here place at outside centre.<\/p>\n<p>Laois&#8217; Eimear Corri-Fallon comes into the pack along with Ellena Perry, Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald, Grace Moore and Claire Boles.<\/p>\n<p>The new faces include former Buccaneers player Anna McGann and Molly Scuffil McCabe in the backs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Linda Djougang will win her 50th cap in the game in Northampton.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 29 August 2025 14:01 Scott Bemand&#8217;s side secured victory over Japan in their opening fixture. Ireland head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[9455,16786,2000,299,16790,16787,3611,16785,16783,16784,12,16788,9440,104,16789],"class_list":{"0":"post-382537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-irish-news","13":"tag-laois","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-local-radio","16":"tag-midlands","17":"tag-midlands-103","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-offaly","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-spain","22":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115112294008907000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}