{"id":283847,"date":"2026-02-06T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283847\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:49:10","slug":"gerry-thornley-on-a-miserable-night-in-paris-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283847\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Thornley on a miserable night in Paris \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image audio_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767177708414-69197743-5ee2-4403-b94c-9a36cd6b79cd.jpeg\"\/>Where does a heavy loss leave Ireland? <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ireland's Caelan Doris and Dan Sheehan dejected after the match in Paris. Photograph: Billy Stickland\/&#xA9;INPHO\" class=\"c-image b-it-lead-art__btn-full-screen-open\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UOZZ6ERTOWT65SW35E77ZH6XVA.jpg\"   width=\"1024\" height=\"678\"\/>Ireland&#8217;s Caelan Doris and Dan Sheehan dejected after the match in Paris. Photograph: Billy Stickland\/\u00a9INPHO <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A difficult night for Ireland saw them lose heavily to France in Paris. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Nathan Johns and Gerry Thornley were at the Stade de France to pick through where it all went wrong. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Was Ireland\u2019s game plan exposed? What to make of selection or the decision to continually kick away possession? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">What positives, if any, can be gleamed from a second half fightback?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Produced by John Casey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where does a heavy loss leave Ireland? Ireland&#8217;s Caelan Doris and Dan Sheehan dejected after the match in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,121811,1452,61,60,1449,43,12918,15551],"class_list":["post-283847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-antoine-dupont","tag-france-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-news","tag-sam-prendergast","tag-six-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283847","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=283847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}