{"id":275884,"date":"2025-11-10T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275884\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:49:07","slug":"ireland-v-australia-all-you-need-to-know-ahead-of-wallabies-visit-to-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275884\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Australia: All you need to know ahead of Wallabies&#8217; visit to Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland&#8217;s Six Nations campaign saw them finish third. Despite winning four of their five games, a 15-point defeat by France in Dublin proved costly as with just three bonus points picked up overall, they finished two points behind Les Bleus with England one ahead in second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With 18 players involved in the British and Irish Lions&#8217; tour to Australia, it was an opportunity for many of those on the fringes to show what they could do as Ireland travelled to Georgia and Portugal in the summer, winning both Tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andy Farrell&#8217;s side opened their autumn with a loss to the All Blacks in Chicago, but they bounced back with a win over Japan in Dublin on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia have had a mixed year, to say the least. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tour of the British and Irish Lions was the height of the Wallabies&#8217; year, although they lost the series 2-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A early win over South Africa in the Rugby Championship was promising, but defeats by Argentina and twice to New Zealand saw them finish in a distant third place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A narrow win over Japan provided some optimism, but they were convincingly beaten by England and Italy then stunned the Wallabies on Saturday, which means Australia have lost five of their last six matches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Six Nations campaign saw them finish third. Despite winning four of their five games, a 15-point defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-275884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275884","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=275884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}