Connacht’s Cullie Tucker will lead Ireland ‘A’ against Spain in Leganes next month.<\/p>\n
Tucker, who is the western province’s scrum and contact coach, was part of Paul O’Connell’s backroom team for Ireland’s summer tour of Georgia and Portugal. <\/p>\n
Ireland ‘A’ will face Spain – who have qualified for the 2027 Rugby World Cup – at Estadio Municipal de Butarque on Saturday, 8 November (16:00 BST), the same day as the senior team’s autumn Test against Japan in Dublin (12:40 BST). <\/p>\n
Tucker will be assisted by Mossy Lawler (backs\/attack Coach), Jimmy Duffy (forwards coach) and Sean O’Brien (defence coach).<\/p>\n
Last year, Ireland ‘A’ lost 28-12 to England ‘A’ in Bristol.<\/p>\n
The Irish Rugby Football Union says the Ireland ‘A’ squad will be announced “in the coming weeks”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht’s Cullie Tucker will lead Ireland ‘A’ against Spain in Leganes next month. Tucker, who is the western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-202954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}