{"id":310694,"date":"2026-02-22T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310694\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:09:13","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-ireland-reborn-as-andy-farrells-main-men-reduce-steve-borthwicks-england-project-to-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310694\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Ireland reborn as Andy Farrell\u2019s main men reduce Steve Borthwick\u2019s England project to rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jamie Osborne stretches over the line to score a try at Twickenham. Photo: Adrian Dennis\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2262283124.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)\">Jamie Osborne stretches over the line to score a try at Twickenham. Photo: Adrian Dennis\/Getty Images<\/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)\">A team reborn. Mea culpas all round.<\/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)\">Andy Farrell was entitled to more than a few \u2018I told you sos\u2019 as he surveyed the wreckage at Twickenham. He\u2019s stood by his men, pushing every button in the hope of tapping into their mojo and it turned out that the sight of white jerseys did the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Osborne stretches over the line to score a try at Twickenham. Photo: Adrian Dennis\/Getty Images A team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,28581,65851,61,60,43,16766,58217],"class_list":{"0":"post-310694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-caelan-doris","10":"tag-dan-sheehan","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","15":"tag-tadhg-beirne"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310694","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=310694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}