{"id":495434,"date":"2026-02-21T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495434\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:25:08","slug":"england-21-42-ireland-hosts-slip-to-historic-defeat-in-six-nations-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495434\/","title":{"rendered":"England 21-42 Ireland: Hosts slip to historic defeat in Six Nations &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>England captain Maro Itoje couldn&#8217;t celebrate his 100th cap with a win.\u00a0David Rogers\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Six Nations unravelled spectacularly as they were brutally removed from title contention following a 42-21 rout by Ireland at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>A week after their Murrayfield jinx had struck again, Steve Borthwick&#8217;s men leaked 22 unanswered points in a dramatic opening half hour with Luke Cowan-Dickie and Freddie Steward hooked before the interval.<\/p>\n<p>And the misery continued into the second half as broken England hardly fired a shot in their first defeat at Twickenham since November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Information from PA contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England captain Maro Itoje couldn&#8217;t celebrate his 100th cap with a win.\u00a0David Rogers\/Getty Images England&#8217;s Six Nations unravelled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-495434","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\/495434","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=495434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}