{"id":104800,"date":"2025-10-26T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104800\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:57:14","slug":"license-to-roam-why-tommy-obrien-just-might-be-irelands-secret-weapon-against-the-all-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104800\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018License to roam\u2019 \u2013 Why Tommy O\u2019Brien just might be Ireland\u2019s secret weapon against the All Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tommy O'Brien could have a key role to play against New Zealand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7fb7b3e6-c037-4754-aa85-d907f316a592.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)\">Tommy O&#8217;Brien could have a key role to play against New Zealand<\/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)\">Gone are the days when the All Blacks didn\u2019t know the names of their Irish opponents, a decade of battles have seen the two teams develop a tasty rivalry.<\/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)\">Yet, while the Kiwis are more aware of Andy Farrell\u2019s stalwarts, they\u2019ll be unfamiliar with the man set to wear the No 14 shirt at Soldier Field next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy O&#8217;Brien could have a key role to play against New Zealand Gone are the days when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,16766],"class_list":["post-104800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104800","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=104800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}