{"id":128235,"date":"2025-11-08T06:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128235\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T06:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:26:16","slug":"the-making-of-tom-farrell-the-long-and-winding-road-to-his-ireland-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128235\/","title":{"rendered":"The making of Tom Farrell \u2013 the long and winding road to his Ireland debut"},"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\">Resilient Munster centre (32) has taken the road less travelled via Leinster, Bedford and Connacht to earning his first cap\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Farrell during an Ireland Rugby training session at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3277582.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)\">Tom Farrell during an Ireland Rugby training session at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald\/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)\">It has been a very special three months in the life of Tom Farrell.<\/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)\">At the start of August, Farrell became a dad, as he and his wife Chloe welcomed their first child, a daughter named Sophia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resilient Munster centre (32) has taken the road less travelled via Leinster, Bedford and Connacht to earning his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28454,42,11287,11897,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-128235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-headlines","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-munster-rugby","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128235","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=128235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}