{"id":317934,"date":"2026-02-26T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317934\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:09:09","slug":"irfu-face-battle-to-retain-andy-farrell-after-the-world-cup-as-saracens-offer-e1-2m-a-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317934\/","title":{"rendered":"IRFU face battle to retain Andy Farrell after the World Cup as Saracens offer \u20ac1.2m-a-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b5224b24-cf3c-4b89-ba6a-a7a9d404f3a1.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 head coach Andy Farrell<\/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)\">Fears are growing in Irish rugby circles that Andy Farrell could be set to return to England to coach his old club Saracens after the World Cup, with IRFU performance director David Humphreys meeting the Ireland head coach\u2019s representatives this week about his future plans.<\/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)\">Rumours of the move have been bubbling under the surface for a number of weeks now, and there were reports in France over the weekend that the deal was done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Ireland head coach Andy Farrell Fears are growing in Irish rugby circles that Andy Farrell could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25747,61,60,16766,112],"class_list":["post-317934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317934","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=317934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}