{"id":275662,"date":"2026-02-01T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275662\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:27:09","slug":"hes-progressed-really-well-ireland-hopeful-tadhg-furlong-will-win-fitness-race-for-six-nations-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275662\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s progressed really well\u2019 \u2013 Ireland hopeful Tadhg Furlong will win fitness race for Six Nations opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tadhg Furlong during an Ireland training session at The Campus in Quinta do Lago\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3338372.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)\">Tadhg Furlong during an Ireland training session at The Campus in Quinta do Lago<\/p>\n<p>Cian Tracey in Quinta do Lago<\/p>\n<p>Today at 17:41<\/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)\">Tadhg Furlong took some part in training today, as the Ireland tighthead prop stepped up his recovery in a bid to prove his fitness in time for Thursday\u2019s Six Nations opener against France in Paris.<\/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)\">It remains to be seen if Furlong, who has been struggling with a calf injury, will feature at Stade de France, but the latest update from Ireland\u2019s training camp in Portugal was positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadhg Furlong during an Ireland training session at The Campus in Quinta do Lago Cian Tracey in Quinta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13503,61,19086,60,43],"class_list":["post-275662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","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\/275662","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=275662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}