{"id":156545,"date":"2025-11-24T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156545\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:46:09","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-acceptance-of-moral-victory-shows-ireland-have-fallen-back-to-the-six-nations-pack-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156545\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Acceptance of moral victory shows Ireland have fallen back to the Six Nations pack again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Farrell\u2019s post-match press conference got off to a bad start when, for the second time in three days, he bristled at a journalist\u2019s question. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a17d2006-4897-4e75-b5c3-35694b83735f.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)\">Andy Farrell\u2019s post-match press conference got off to a bad start when, for the second time in three days, he bristled at a journalist\u2019s question. Photo: 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)\">In 10 weeks\u2019 time, Ireland open their Six Nations campaign in Paris on a Thursday night. They face Italy a week later, before travelling to Twickenham without a break weekend under the new format.<\/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)\">Their campaign will be defined by those two away games and their ability to bounce back from a troubled November campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell\u2019s post-match press conference got off to a bad start when, for the second time in three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,60,43,16766],"class_list":["post-156545","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\/156545","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=156545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}