{"id":103001,"date":"2025-10-25T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103001\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:31:18","slug":"cian-tracey-toughest-ever-november-awaits-as-ireland-start-with-a-point-to-prove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103001\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Toughest ever November awaits as Ireland start with a point to prove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAndy Farrell must reinstill confidence and belief on his return to helm following Lions sabbatical as focus shifts towards 2027 World Cup in Australia\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell. Picture: Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3149b344-bd24-47a3-996e-ddaeb64cf5db.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland head coach Andy Farrell. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This time last year, Ireland bounced into November as Six Nations champions \u2013 and on the back of a stunning last-gasp win over South Africa, the double world champions, in the Springboks own backyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sure, there were some speed bumps along the way. England, of course, took the wind out of Ireland\u2019s sails to deny them a potential Grand Slam at Twickenham, while Andy Farrell\u2019s men limped over the line in securing the title the following weekend at home to Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell must reinstill confidence and belief on his return to helm following Lions sabbatical as focus shifts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,13503,61,60,4174,54623,43],"class_list":["post-103001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-johnny-sexton","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}