{"id":287112,"date":"2026-02-08T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287112\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:10:15","slug":"bernard-jackman-andy-farrell-is-facing-into-his-greatest-challenge-ever-as-ireland-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287112\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Jackman: Andy Farrell is facing into his greatest challenge ever as Ireland head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a5b98c5a-5b02-4200-ac62-6c4169b55961.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 head coach Andy Farrell. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">If the bubble wasn\u2019t burst by finishing third in last year\u2019s Six Nations, or by the harrowing defeats to the All Blacks and the Springboks in November, then it definitely was after the 24 hours between Thursday night in Paris and Friday night in Limerick.<\/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)\">What makes the current Springboks side so remarkable is that they have been on top since the 2019 World Cup in Japan and don\u2019t look like they are stopping. Most teams have peaks and troughs and we are certainly in, or heading into, a dip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile If the bubble wasn\u2019t burst by finishing third in last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-287112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287112","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=287112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}