{"id":300842,"date":"2026-02-16T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300842\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:08:09","slug":"cormac-izuchukwu-shines-as-ireland-secure-first-six-nations-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300842\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormac Izuchukwu Shines As Ireland Secure First Six Nations Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 16 February 2026 11:12\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6992fb454d7cf.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo Credit: Instagram\/@irishrugby<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Offaly man earned his fourth cap for Ireland on Saturday.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Cormac Izuchukwu says he delighted to have featured for Ireland given his injury record this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Offaly man made his Six Nations debut in Ireland&#8217;s 20-13 win at home to Italy on Saturday, where he played 58 minutes for Andy Farrell&#8217;s side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Osborne, Jack Conan and fellow debutant Robert Baloucoune got the all important tries for Ireland, as they got their first victory of the campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attention now turns to the clash away to England this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Izuchukwu lined out at blindside flanker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says it&#8217;s an unbelievable feeling to be playing again:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 16 February 2026 11:12 Photo Credit: Instagram\/@irishrugby The Offaly man earned his fourth cap for Ireland on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-300842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-irish-news","13":"tag-laois","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-local-radio","16":"tag-midlands","17":"tag-midlands-103","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-offaly","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-westmeath"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300842","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=300842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}