{"id":158199,"date":"2025-11-25T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158199\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:36:09","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-is-jacques-nienabers-position-within-irish-rugby-tenable-after-his-come-and-get-me-plea-to-rassie-erasmus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158199\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Is Jacques Nienaber\u2019s position within Irish rugby tenable after his come-and-get-me plea to Rassie Erasmus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">South African coaching duo are taking Irish rugby for a ride and so far nobody is staying stop\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Leinster senior coach Jacques Nienaber, right, and Leinster head coach Leo Cullen \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/114878799.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)\"> Leinster senior coach Jacques Nienaber, right, and Leinster head coach Leo Cullen <\/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)\">Jacques Nienaber\u2019s posi tion as Leinster\u2019s senior coach is borderline untenable after the events of last week.<\/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 many lines of work they\u2019d put a senior figure who expressed his clear desire to go and work for a competitor on gardening leave. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South African coaching duo are taking Irish rugby for a ride and so far nobody is staying stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4174,11287,16766,112],"class_list":["post-158199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158199","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=158199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}