{"id":269646,"date":"2026-01-29T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269646\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:18:09","slug":"cian-tracey-whats-on-andy-farrells-to-do-list-as-ireland-prepare-for-six-nations-with-trouble-on-many-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269646\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: What\u2019s on Andy Farrell\u2019s to-do list as Ireland prepare for Six Nations with trouble on many fronts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell (left) and captain Caelan Doris have several issues to solve before the start of the Six Nations. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3304063.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)\">Ireland head coach Andy Farrell (left) and captain Caelan Doris have several issues to solve before the start of the Six Nations. 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)\">The intermittent wind and rain in Quinta do Lago quickly dispelled any notions that the Ireland squad were about to face into a warm-weather training camp over the next 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)\">The inclement weather is the least of Andy Farrell\u2019s problems, however, as the Ireland head coach works his way through a considerable to-do list ahead of his side\u2019s Six Nations opener in Paris this day next week. Here are Farrell\u2019s main priorities:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell (left) and captain Caelan Doris have several issues to solve before the start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,13503,61,19086,60,43],"class_list":["post-269646","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269646","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=269646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}