{"id":278336,"date":"2026-02-03T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278336\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:24:09","slug":"its-tragic-it-puts-things-into-perspective-dan-sheehan-on-uini-atonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278336\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s tragic, it puts things into perspective\u2019 \u2013 Dan Sheehan on Uini Atonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dan Sheehan at The Campus in Quinta do Lago, Portugal. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sports3339147.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)\">Dan Sheehan at The Campus in Quinta do Lago, Portugal. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">Uini Atonio was one of the most prominent common denominators for so many deeply disappointing days in Dan Sheehan\u2019s career. That\u2019s why it was all the sweeter any time Sheehan got one over on Atonio, whether it was against France or La Rochelle.<\/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)\">So, when Leinster beat La Rochelle three weeks ago, Sheehan relished the latest battle with Atonio. Little did the 27-year-old Ireland hooker know at the time that it would be the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Sheehan at The Campus in Quinta do Lago, Portugal. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile Uini Atonio was one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,61,19086,60,112],"class_list":["post-278336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-international-rugby","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278336","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=278336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}