{"id":282029,"date":"2026-02-05T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282029\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:48:09","slug":"ireland-begin-six-nations-campaign-away-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282029\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Begin Six Nations Campaign Away To France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 5 February 2026 11:07\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6526832836b38.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Micheal Milne could feature for Ireland this evening.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ireland head coach Andy Farrell insists he&#8217;s happy for his side to wear the underdog tag ahead of their Six Nations opener tonight.<\/p>\n<p>They face defending champions &#8211; and pre-tournament favourites &#8211; France in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Offaly&#8217;s Micheal Milne is on the bench for this evening&#8217;s clash, with Ireland looking to win their first game in Paris since 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite a long injury list, Farrell says his squad can spring a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off in Paris is at 8:10pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 5 February 2026 11:07 Micheal Milne could feature for Ireland this evening. Ireland head coach Andy Farrell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-282029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282029","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=282029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}