{"id":286238,"date":"2026-02-07T20:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286238\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:56:11","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-paris-woe-confirmed-irelands-worst-fears-so-the-time-has-now-come-to-innovate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286238\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Paris woe confirmed Ireland\u2019s worst fears \u2013 so the time has now come to innovate"},"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\">\nUnder Andy Farrell, Ireland established a clear playing identity between 2021 and 2024 \u2013 but that\u2019s long gone\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018Andy Farrell is a winner who doesn\u2019t tolerate low standards, so the current run must be driving him up the walls.\u2019 Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e79f6c0f-1fb0-43a2-ba16-1974e1f2d9b0.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)\">\u2018Andy Farrell is a winner who doesn\u2019t tolerate low standards, so the current run must be driving him up the walls.\u2019 Photo: David Fitzgerald\/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)\">Joe Schmidt is in Dublin at the minute on a visit to see family and friends during the Southern Hemisphere off-season. One wonders if Andy Farrell could find the time to hit him up for a little advice.<\/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\u2019s predecessor could certainly tell him a thing or two about how this job can get away from you.  No matter what you\u2019ve achieved as Ireland coach, the end days are rarely pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under Andy Farrell, Ireland established a clear playing identity between 2021 and 2024 \u2013 but that\u2019s long gone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,60,4174,54623,43,16766],"class_list":{"0":"post-286238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","12":"tag-johnny-sexton","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286238","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=286238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}