{"id":312168,"date":"2026-02-23T00:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312168\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:33:13","slug":"tony-ward-thoroughbred-wingers-are-giving-the-ireland-attack-a-whole-new-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312168\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ward: Thoroughbred wingers are giving the Ireland attack a whole new dimension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAll-action displays are becoming the norm for Robert Baloucoune, James Lowe and now Tommy O\u2019Brien, with the likes of JJ Kenny at Leinster made of the same stuff\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Baloucoune beats the tackle of England's Ollie Lawrence before setting up Ireland's third try against England. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/66969f47-0911-409f-8507-55d7cab6085d.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)\">Robert Baloucoune beats the tackle of England&#8217;s Ollie Lawrence before setting up Ireland&#8217;s third try against England. Photo: 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)\">There have been many great wins in the cause of Irish rugby over many years, but what was achieved in Twickenham on Saturday and its manner, particularly when given the pre-match context, ranks up there with the best ever.<\/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)\">Most rational evidence in the opening two rounds, and I say \u2018most\u2019 because of England\u2019s unexpected Calcutta Cup undoing at Murrayfield, pointed to a Chariot bounce back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-action displays are becoming the norm for Robert Baloucoune, James Lowe and now Tommy O\u2019Brien, with the likes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4174,43,50534],"class_list":["post-312168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-news","tag-tony-ward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312168","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=312168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}