{"id":263749,"date":"2026-01-25T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263749\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:55:09","slug":"cian-tracey-prop-crisis-leaves-ireland-facing-difficult-six-nations-as-daunting-french-test-looms-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263749\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Prop crisis leaves Ireland facing difficult Six Nations as daunting French test looms large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Boyle of Leinster leaves the field on a medical cart after picking up a leg injury against Connacht on Saturday night. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sports3327593.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)\">Jack Boyle of Leinster leaves the field on a medical cart after picking up a leg injury against Connacht on Saturday night. Photo: Sam Barnes\/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)\">For a man who so readily embraces adversity at every turn, even Andy Farrell will surely be sitting a little less comfortably on his flight from the Six Nations launch in Edinburgh on Monday to join the rest of the Ireland squad in the Algarve.<\/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)\">A little over 10 days out from Ireland\u2019s Six Nations opener against France in Paris, Farrell has a full-scale loosehead prop crisis on his hands, with injury doubts hanging over several other players who were named in last week\u2019s 37-man squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Boyle of Leinster leaves the field on a medical cart after picking up a leg injury against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,13503,61,19086,60,43,69607],"class_list":["post-263749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-international-rugby","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tadhg-furlong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263749","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=263749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}