{"id":304090,"date":"2026-02-18T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304090\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:31:11","slug":"cian-tracey-the-big-selection-calls-facing-andy-farrell-ahead-of-irelands-tough-twickenham-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304090\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: The big selection calls facing Andy Farrell ahead of Ireland\u2019s tough Twickenham test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"R\u00f3nan Kelleher brought fresh impetus to the Ireland team when he came on against Italy. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sports3357235.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)\">R\u00f3nan Kelleher brought fresh impetus to the Ireland team when he came on against Italy. 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)\">Continuity is usually the game of the game for Andy Farrell, but after making six changes to his team for last weekend\u2019s 20-13 win over Italy, and getting a positive response from the majority of players he brought in, the Ireland head coach now has some big selection decisions to make for Saturday\u2019s tough test at Twickenham (2.10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"R\u00f3nan Kelleher brought fresh impetus to the Ireland team when he came on against Italy. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25747,13503,61,19086,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-304090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-cian-tracey","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-international-rugby","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304090","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=304090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}