{"id":292970,"date":"2026-02-11T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:48:11","slug":"munster-second-row-edwin-edogbo-in-line-for-ireland-debut-as-andy-farrell-set-to-ring-changes-for-italy-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292970\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster second-row Edwin Edogbo in line for Ireland debut as Andy Farrell set to ring changes for Italy clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Edwin Edogbo is likely to be brought into the Ireland team for the weekend's Six Nations clash with Italy. Photo by Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3348771.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)\">Edwin Edogbo is likely to be brought into the Ireland team for the weekend&#8217;s Six Nations clash with Italy. Photo by 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)\">Munster second-row Edwin Edogbo is in line to make his Ireland debut in Saturday\u2019s Six Nations clash with Italy at the Aviva Stadium (2.10), as head coach Andy Farrell gets set to ring the changes following last week\u2019s disappointing defeat to France.<\/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)\">Having resisted the temptation to hand Edogbo his first cap in Paris, Farrell is now primed to unleash the powerful 127kg Cobh native against Italy, most likely off the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwin Edogbo is likely to be brought into the Ireland team for the weekend&#8217;s Six Nations clash with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13503,61,60,4174,43],"class_list":["post-292970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292970","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=292970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}