{"id":267405,"date":"2026-01-28T00:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267405\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:45:14","slug":"six-nations-jury-english-hype-welsh-fear-and-can-ireland-rise-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267405\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations jury: English hype, Welsh fear and can Ireland rise again?"},"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\">Our writers answer six key questions as the tournament looms into view\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Captains Dewi Lake (Wales), Sione Tuipulotu (Scotland), Jamie George (England), Antoine Dupont (France), Caelan Doris (Ireland) and Michele Lamaro (Italy) at the Six Nations launch Edinburgh. Photo: Steve Welsh\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f8b242fc-4dd2-4f4c-9000-90817324fc41.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)\">Captains Dewi Lake (Wales), Sione Tuipulotu (Scotland), Jamie George (England), Antoine Dupont (France), Caelan Doris (Ireland) and Michele Lamaro (Italy) at the Six Nations launch Edinburgh. Photo: Steve Welsh\/PA Wire<\/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)\">R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: On the back of their win over New Zealand, English rugby is salivating at the prospect of this Six Nations and they\u2019ll fancy having a Triple Crown by week three. Everyone else has a degree of trepidation, but there\u2019s no enthusiasm in Wales, judging by their poor ticket sales.<\/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)\">Cian Tracey: France will fancy their chances of defending their title, given that they play their main challengers, Ireland and England, at home. However, England have serious momentum behind them thanks to 11 straight wins. We\u2019ll find out where they really stand come the final night in Paris. Meanwhile, the Welsh misery looks set to continue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our writers answer six key questions as the tournament looms into view Captains Dewi Lake (Wales), Sione Tuipulotu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13503,8495,61,60,70587,43,16766,4173,88515],"class_list":{"0":"post-267405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-david-kelly","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-michael-sadlier","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","15":"tag-sinead-kissane","16":"tag-will-slattery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267405","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=267405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}