{"id":142595,"date":"2025-11-16T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142595\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:56:09","slug":"bernard-jackman-this-was-the-ireland-of-old-we-are-starting-two-year-world-cup-journey-on-solid-footing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142595\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Jackman: This was the Ireland of old \u2013 we are starting two-year World Cup journey on solid footing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ryan Baird of Ireland celebrates his side winning a penalty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3293563.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)\">Ryan Baird of Ireland celebrates his side winning a penalty<\/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 Irish rugby team watched their footballing counterparts inspire the Aviva and a nation on Thursday and they were determined to do the same last night against Australia.<\/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\u2019s harder to create something special when you are the favourite and not the rank outsider but the principles are the same. Get the accuracy, intent, aggression and energy right on the field and the supporters will buy in. The atmosphere at the Aviva is often heavily scrutinised yet I have rarely seen a humdinger of a match there that didn\u2019t grab the fans\u2019 attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Baird of Ireland celebrates his side winning a penalty The Irish rugby team watched their footballing counterparts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-142595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142595","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=142595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}