{"id":530612,"date":"2026-03-10T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530612\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:05:09","slug":"reduced-to-silence-by-rugby-jargon-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530612\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced to silence by rugby jargon \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 I recently attended my first international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/\">rugby<\/a> match with my good friend and rugby aficionado, TQ. Early on, after a particularly vigorous passage of play which ended with several players in a recumbent pose, on top of the ball and each other, the referee blew his whistle. He did so while pointing his arm at a 45-degree angle parallel to the sideline. I inquired from TQ as to what might have transpired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He explained, patiently, that following the Garryowen, while they were on the front foot, our man shot up causing a dog-leg, which led to their blindside finding our stand-off\u2019s soft shoulder. The resulting broken space, however, was quickly covered by our tighthead, who, with the aid of two locks, held up the flanker, forming a maul, which was apparently favouring us. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, that ended when the ball fell to the ground, leading of course to the ruck, which our outside centre decided to enter without using the gate. This  led to the penalty, which was the right call in TQ\u2019s opinion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Needless to say, I remained silent for the rest of the match. &#8211; Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">S\u00c9AMUS \u00d3 LOINGSIGH,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rathmines,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 I recently attended my first international rugby match with my good friend and rugby aficionado, TQ.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,202710,760,85],"class_list":["post-530612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-letter-of-the-day","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530612","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=530612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}