{"id":283575,"date":"2026-02-06T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283575\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:13:10","slug":"nowhere-near-where-we-expect-ireland-stars-full-of-regret-as-andy-farrell-questions-their-fight-after-french-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283575\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nowhere near where we expect\u2019 \u2013 Ireland stars full of regret as Andy Farrell questions their \u2018fight\u2019 after French lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770365590_909_video.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)\">Andy Farrell rues first-half display after Ireland\u2019s loss to France<\/p>\n<p>R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O&#8217;Connor in Paris<\/p>\n<p>Today at 08:21<\/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)\">Andy Farrell questioned his Ireland team\u2019s \u201cfight\u201d and said they lacked \u201cintent\u201d in their opening night hammering at the hands of France and his players were not about to disagree with their boss.<\/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)\">Farrell didn\u2019t pull punches on his players post-match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell rues first-half display after Ireland\u2019s loss to France R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O&#8217;Connor in Paris Today at 08:21 Andy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,16766,58217],"class_list":["post-283575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-tadhg-beirne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283575","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=283575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}