{"id":153255,"date":"2025-11-22T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153255\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:57:09","slug":"ireland-v-south-africa-preview-its-time-for-irish-to-remind-the-world-they-are-still-a-team-to-be-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153255\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v South Africa preview: It\u2019s time for Irish to remind the world they are still a team to be feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Prendergast (left) and Jamison Gibson-Park during Ireland's captain's run at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/653b53c6-e3eb-4b58-9ea1-974ebfbfad2f.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 (left) and Jamison Gibson-Park during Ireland&#8217;s captain&#8217;s run at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/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)\">South Africa have been head-hunting this autumn, and we don\u2019t mean their repeat red cards for high tackles.<\/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)\">No, Rassie Erasmus\u2019s men appear to be on a mission to subjugate all their rivals as we pass the midway point of the World Cup cycle. Ireland are next on their list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Prendergast (left) and Jamison Gibson-Park during Ireland&#8217;s captain&#8217;s run at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,60,43,16766],"class_list":["post-153255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153255","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=153255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}