{"id":311992,"date":"2026-02-22T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:33:09","slug":"cian-traceys-breakdown-ireland-scored-five-tries-but-these-were-the-six-moments-that-summed-up-their-epic-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311992\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey\u2019s Breakdown: Ireland scored five tries but these were the six moments that summed up their epic win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's performance has underlined by an incredible workrate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/78455874-ae6c-46c0-899e-39f3d6307a90.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)\">Ireland&#8217;s performance has underlined by an incredible workrate<\/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)\">That Andy Farrell and his assistant coaches celebrated Stuart McCloskey\u2019s remarkable, last-ditch tackle on Marcus Smith more than any of Ireland\u2019s five excellent tries told its own story.<\/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)\">If ever there was a moment that illustrated exactly what Farrell wants his Ireland team to stand for, this was it. With 73 minutes on the clock and the win in the bag, the manner in which McCloskey hunted down Smith was reflective of Ireland\u2019s ultra-aggressive mentality in going after England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s performance has underlined by an incredible workrate That Andy Farrell and his assistant coaches celebrated Stuart McCloskey\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13503,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-311992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311992","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=311992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}