{"id":303197,"date":"2026-02-17T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:01:09","slug":"horrible-to-see-that-in-this-day-and-age-johnny-sexton-reacts-to-online-racial-abuse-of-new-ireland-star-edwin-edogbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303197\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Horrible to see that in this day and age\u2019 \u2013 Johnny Sexton reacts to online racial abuse of new Ireland star Edwin Edogbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>latest\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Assistant coach Jonathan Sexton at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin. Photo by Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sports3360498.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)\">Assistant coach Jonathan Sexton at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin. 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)\">Ireland assistant coach Johnny Sexton says Edwin Edogbo didn\u2019t pay too much attention to the online racial abuse that he received in the aftermath of his international debut last weekend.<\/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)\">Cobh-born and bred Edogbo was subjected to a torrent of nasty remarks, which the IRFU strongly condemned and launched an investigation into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Assistant coach Jonathan Sexton at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin. Photo by Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13503,42,19086,54623,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-303197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-international-rugby","11":"tag-johnny-sexton","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303197","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=303197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}