{"id":137833,"date":"2025-11-13T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137833\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:10:10","slug":"prendergast-to-start-as-ireland-team-named-for-australia-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137833\/","title":{"rendered":"Prendergast to start as Ireland team named for Australia battle &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>              <img width=\"1064\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IrelandRugbyCrestFlag.webp.webp\" class=\"img-fluid wp-post-image lazy\" alt=\"\" title=\"IrelandRugbyCrestFlag\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/>Ireland face Australia this Saturday night.              &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Sam Prendergast is named to start as Ireland head coach Andy Farrell has announced his team for their upcoming clash against Australia in the <a href=\"https:\/\/limerickvoice.com\/sport\/tom-farrell-set-to-make-debut-as-ireland-rugby-team-named\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quilter Nations Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Caelan Doris is set to captain the Irish side in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin this Saturday for their second match of the series. Kick off is at 8:30 Irish time and will be broadcast on RT\u00c9 2.<\/p>\n<p>Returning from injury, Mack Hansen will start in the fullback position alongside Tommy O\u2019Brien and James Lowe. The midfielders look equally as strong, with Robbie Henshaw and Stuart McCloskey named to start. Prendergast and Jamison Gibson Park get the nod for the half-back line.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy McCarthy will play his first test start in green, joining Dan Sheehan and Tadhg Furlong in the front row while James Ryan, Tadhg Beirne, Ryan Baird, and Jack Conan complete the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell\u2019s side also includes a strong set of replacements, including Craig Casey, Andrew Porter and Jack Crowley.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our line up for Australia at Aviva Stadium! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3IajWccDuP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3IajWccDuP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Irish Rugby (@IrishRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishRugby\/status\/1988970605463630288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full team line up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Ireland Starting:<\/p>\n<p>15. Mack Hansen 14. Tommy O\u2019Brien 13. Robbie Henshaw 12. Stuart McCloskey 11. James Lowe 10. Sam Prendergast 9. Jamison Gibson-Park<\/p>\n<p>1. Paddy McCarthy 2. Dan Sheehan 3. Tadhg Furlong 4. James Ryan 5. Tadhg Beirne 6. Ryan Baird 7. Caelan Doris 8. Jack Conan<\/p>\n<p>Ireland Replacements:<\/p>\n<p>16. R\u00f3nan Kelleher 17. Andrew Porter<\/p>\n<p>18. Thomas Clarkson 19. Nick Timoney 20. Cian Prendergast 21. Craig Casey 22. Jack Crowley 23. Bundee Aki<\/p>\n<p>                                                     &#13;<br \/>\n                     &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPost navigation<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland face Australia this Saturday night. &#13; Sam Prendergast is named to start as Ireland head coach Andy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79596,73536,61,60,1449,43,3654,12918],"class_list":["post-137833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-australia-rugby","tag-autumn-internationals","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-sam-prendergast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137833","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=137833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}