{"id":79897,"date":"2015-01-16T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=79897"},"modified":"2015-01-16T22:27:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:27:48","slug":"mens-ireland-league-will-first-ever-female-referee-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/mens-ireland-league-will-first-ever-female-referee-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"The men\u2019s All-Ireland League will have its first-ever female referee tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELEN O\u2019REILLY IS set to become the first-ever female referee of a men\u2019s All-Ireland League game when she takes charge of Sundays Well\u2019s meeting with Kanturk at Musgrave Park this evening [KO 19.30]. Image: James Crombie\/INPHO<br \/>\nO\u2019Reilly was appointed to the IRFU\u2019s national panel of referees in December and is enjoying an ever-growing reputation within the sport.<br \/>\nThe Dubliner, who previously played for Ashbourne and St. Mary\u2019s, officiated the opening game of last year\u2019s Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup in France, when the hosts met Wales.<br \/>\nO\u2019Reilly became the first Irish female referee to take charge of a Women\u2019s Six Nations match in 2013, having started out with fixtures in the Women\u2019s All-Ireland League&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. see the full story at :- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the42.ie\/helen-oreilly-female-rugby-referee-1886281-Jan2015\/\">http:\/\/www.the42.ie\/helen-oreilly-female-rugby-referee-1886281-Jan2015\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELEN O\u2019REILLY IS set to become the first-ever female referee of a men\u2019s All-Ireland League game when she takes charge of Sundays Well\u2019s meeting with Kanturk at Musgrave Park this evening [KO 19.30]. Image: James Crombie\/INPHO O\u2019Reilly was appointed to the IRFU\u2019s national panel of referees in December and is enjoying an ever-growing reputation within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6239,9985,5226,7493,4419,6784],"class_list":["post-79897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-all-ireland","tag-female","tag-league","tag-mens","tag-referee","tag-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}