{"id":293014,"date":"2026-02-11T21:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293014\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:24:16","slug":"ireland-u-20s-make-three-changes-for-six-nations-clash-with-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland U-20s make three changes for Six Nations clash with Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lee Fitzpatrick is back in the Ireland U-20 starting XV. Photo by Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3293225.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)\">Lee Fitzpatrick is back in the Ireland U-20 starting XV. Photo by Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/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)\">Head coach Andrew Browne has made three changes to his Ireland U-20 side to face Italy U-20 in Thomond Park on Friday night (KO 7.45) .<\/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 are looking to stem the tide after two consecutive competitive defeats to Italy, but Browne\u2019s side did defeat their opponents 29-10 in a warm-up match last month, and both sides are looking for their first win of the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Fitzpatrick is back in the Ireland U-20 starting XV. Photo by Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile Head coach Andrew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4174,43],"class_list":["post-293014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","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\/293014","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=293014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}