{"id":118875,"date":"2025-11-03T05:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118875\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:50:13","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-huge-task-ahead-for-andy-farrell-to-turn-ireland-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118875\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Huge task ahead for Andy Farrell to turn Ireland around"},"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\">\nDefeat to New Zealand is not a disaster in itself but the repeated shortcomings are a worry for Irish head coach\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland players, from left, James Ryan, Tadhg Furlong, Josh van der Flier and R\u00f3nan Kelleher after their defeat to New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3275633.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 players, from left, James Ryan, Tadhg Furlong, Josh van der Flier and R\u00f3nan Kelleher after their defeat to New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">As he absent-mindedly fidgeted with a dictaphone while fielding questions from reporters deep beneath the Soldier Field stands, Andy Farrell gave an impression of an unhappy man who had somewhere better to be.<\/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)\">It wasn\u2019t so much that the questions were bothering him, it was the sense that there\u2019s no time to be wasted when it comes to fixing the myriad of familiar problems that afflicted his team in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defeat to New Zealand is not a disaster in itself but the repeated shortcomings are a worry for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,19086,60,43,16766],"class_list":["post-118875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-international-rugby","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118875","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=118875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}