{"id":311155,"date":"2026-02-22T08:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311155\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:23:10","slug":"andy-farrell-gave-classy-mention-to-ireland-u20s-after-huge-win-vs-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311155\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell Gave Classy Mention To Ireland U20s After Huge Win Vs England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International rugby has been far from pretty for Ireland in recent weeks but the last 24 hours have changed the complexion.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland U20s faced a daunting challenge away to England U20s but they produced an almight shock as they came from behind to win 31-21 in Friday&#8217;s clash.<\/p>\n<p>The senior team would continue to emulate the U20s&#8217; results on Saturday, with a phenomenal 41-21 win over England at Twickenham.<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The picture prior to this weekend had not been pretty, but things all of a sudden feel very different for Irish rugby with both teams jumping to second place in their respective competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Farrell&#8217;s Ireland U20s tribute<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the underage side&#8217;s exploits was not lost on Ireland senior head coach Andy Farrell when he reflected on his own team&#8217;s win.<\/p>\n<p>We was down in the dumps two weeks ago wasn&#8217;t we?,&#8221; he told RT\u00c9 after the win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And even last week (despite the win).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our 20s got over the line as well which was a phenomenal win for them and that inspires you as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know where we are going &#8211; I didn&#8217;t care whether we won or lost, just that we grew as a group and the respect we had for the shirt showed to each other how much it means to play for Ireland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nice for Andy to mention the U-20s in his interview there \u2618\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENGvIRE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ENGvIRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Grace O&#8217;Sullivan (@gosulli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gosulli\/status\/2025248971065618739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nice touch from the Ireland boss.<\/p>\n<p>The players were fully deserving of his acknowledgement, with one piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/charlie-oshea-ireland-u20s-england-650130\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">high rugby IQ skill<\/a> playing its&#8217; part in their comeback win.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/ireland-england-six-nations-criticism-matt-dawson-650155\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;U14s Stuff&#8217;: England Legend Did Not Hold Back After Embarrassing Loss To Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International rugby has been far from pretty for Ireland in recent weeks but the last 24 hours have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25747,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-311155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311155","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=311155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}