{"id":412265,"date":"2025-09-10T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412265\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T04:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:48:13","slug":"sinead-kissane-can-ireland-close-the-gap-with-france-in-their-biggest-game-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412265\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin\u00e9ad Kissane: Can Ireland close the gap with France in their biggest game for years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Anna McGann is tackled by Carla Arbez of France during the sides' Women's Six Nations clash at Kingspan Stadium in Belfast. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b4492fba-2bf3-4837-a2e4-0b0426053ce1.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)\">Ireland&#8217;s Anna McGann is tackled by Carla Arbez of France during the sides&#8217; Women&#8217;s Six Nations clash at Kingspan Stadium in Belfast. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/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)\">Scott Bemand was less than three minutes into his post-match press conference in Ravenhill last March when he flagged a possible rematch six months down the line. Ireland had just lost 15-27 to France in their first game of the 2025 Women\u2019s Six Nations and the head coach highlighted when they could meet France again.<\/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)\">\u201cParticularly with the World Cup on the horizon, this could very well be a quarter-final,\u201d Bemand said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Anna McGann is tackled by Carla Arbez of France during the sides&#8217; Women&#8217;s Six Nations clash at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,141730],"class_list":{"0":"post-412265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-sinead-kissane"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115178196538066421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412265","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=412265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}