{"id":136297,"date":"2025-11-12T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/136297\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:41:11","slug":"sam-prendergast-set-for-ireland-no-10-jersey-as-mack-hansen-to-return-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/136297\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Prendergast set for Ireland No 10 jersey as Mack Hansen to return against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Prendergast impressed after coming off the bench against Japan at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a39c7e15-90b9-47c2-ab28-455f57ba11f2.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)\">Sam Prendergast impressed after coming off the bench against Japan at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/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)\">Sam Prendergast is expected to return to the Ireland No 10 jersey for Saturday night\u2019s sold-out clash with Australia at the Aviva Stadium (8.10), as head coach Andy Farrell shakes up his team.<\/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)\">The 22-year-old has been on the bench for Ireland\u2019s previous three games, behind Jack Crowley, but Prendergast now looks set to get his chance from the start against Joe Schmidt\u2019s Wallabies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Prendergast impressed after coming off the bench against Japan at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile Sam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13503,42,19086,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-136297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-international-rugby","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136297","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=136297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}