{"id":278026,"date":"2026-02-03T05:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:42:17","slug":"sam-prendergast-set-to-start-irelands-six-nations-opener-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Prendergast set to start Ireland\u2019s Six Nations opener in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Prendergast during an Ireland Rugby squad training session at The Campus in Quinta do Lago, Portugal. Photo by Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sports3339034.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)\">Sam Prendergast during an Ireland Rugby squad training session at The Campus in Quinta do Lago, Portugal. Photo by Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p>Cian Tracey and R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O&#8217;Connor in Paris<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 19:57<\/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)\">Ireland head coach Andy Farrell could spring a couple of surprises when he names his team to play France in Thursday night\u2019s Six Nations opener in Paris (8.10 Irish time).<\/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)\">Sam Prendergast (22) is set to see off competition from Jack Crowley and Harry Byrne to get the nod at out-half, with his older brother Cian (25) and Jacob Stockdale believed to be strongly pushing for inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 Sam Prendergast during an Ireland Rugby squad training session at The Campus in Quinta do Lago, Portugal.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,13503,28454,61,19086,60,11287,11897,43,16766,31398],"class_list":["post-278026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-cian-tracey","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-ie","tag-international-rugby","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-munster-rugby","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278026","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=278026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}