{"id":273414,"date":"2026-01-31T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273414\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:49:11","slug":"the-eddie-osullivan-interview-if-i-had-it-back-i-would-have-stopped-to-smell-the-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273414\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eddie O\u2019Sullivan interview: \u2018If I had it back, I would have stopped to smell the roses\u2019"},"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\">It is 18 years since his era as Ireland head coach ended. He paved the way for future success but his final years in charge came with a cost and a few regrets\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eddie O\u2019Sullivan regrets he didn\u2019t enjoy the high points he had with Ireland more than he did at the time. Photo: Ray Ryan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ie O Sullivan  1165.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)\">Eddie O\u2019Sullivan regrets he didn\u2019t enjoy the high points he had with Ireland more than he did at the time. Photo: Ray Ryan<\/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)\">Eddie O\u2019Sullivan was at home in Galway last month when he got messages on his phone about a horror scene unfolding in Providence, Rhode Island.<\/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)\">An active shooter was on the loose at Brown University, where O\u2019Sullivan works as technical advisor for the men\u2019s rugby squad. He would have been in America \u2013 except the rugby team were knocked out of the national championship the previous weekend, so he returned to Ireland for the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is 18 years since his era as Ireland head coach ended. He paved the way for future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25747,61,60,4174,1255,112],"class_list":["post-273414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273414","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=273414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}