{"id":284928,"date":"2026-02-07T02:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284928\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:17:09","slug":"no-lifting-the-mood-for-irish-rugby-as-england-a-run-riot-in-thomond-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284928\/","title":{"rendered":"No lifting the mood for Irish rugby as England \u2018A\u2019 run riot in Thomond Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ireland XV 14, England \u2018A\u2019 52\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Gus McCarthy is tackled by Ollie Hassell-Collins of England A during their match in Thomond Park. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fdbfe6cc-ab91-45bb-822e-3e2bf3804b11.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)\">Ireland&#8217;s Gus McCarthy is tackled by Ollie Hassell-Collins of England A during their match in Thomond Park. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/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)\">Ireland XV endured a difficult night at Thomond Park as Cullie Tucker\u2019s side fell to a comprehensive defeat at the hands of a supremely-drilled England \u2018A\u2019 side, in front of Andy Farrell and the Ireland coaching staff.<\/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)\">After a chastening night in Paris on Thursday, there wasn\u2019t much to lift the mood as the visitors largely dominated the early exchanges and eventually took the lead in the ninth minute when team captain Ethan Roots touched down over the whitewash in clinical style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland XV 14, England \u2018A\u2019 52 Ireland&#8217;s Gus McCarthy is tackled by Ollie Hassell-Collins of England A during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,19086,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-284928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-international-rugby","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284928","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=284928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}