{"id":129122,"date":"2025-11-08T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129122\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:53:08","slug":"tom-farrell-i-am-relieved-to-finally-get-the-monkey-off-the-back-by-playing-for-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129122\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Farrell: \u2018I am relieved to finally get the monkey off the back by playing for Ireland\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Tom Farrell of Ireland in action against Dylan Riley of Japan during the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3280474.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&#8217;s Tom Farrell of Ireland in action against Dylan Riley of Japan during the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">Tom Farrell said he was relieved to finally play for Ireland after the Munster centre made his long-awaited debut at the age of 32 during his side\u2019s 41-10 win over Japan at the Aviva Stadium.<\/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)\">Farrell has had to stay patient for his opportunity, as he took the long road via the Leinster Academy, Bedford Blues and Connacht before he joined Munster last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Tom Farrell of Ireland in action against Dylan Riley of Japan during the Quilter Nations Series 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13503,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-129122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129122","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=129122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}