{"id":327169,"date":"2026-03-03T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327169\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:45:12","slug":"from-paris-pain-to-twickenham-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327169\/","title":{"rendered":"From Paris pain to Twickenham triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a00e6b717e06e4df1fe674_603ee67e0c9b1316022950ef9dae39fe_Murray-K-web.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-pic\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"name\">By Murray Kinsella<\/p>\n<p class=\"role\">Rugby Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>The exhilarating feeling for more than 20,000 Irish fans in Twickenham two weekends ago was all the greater because of what happened in Paris a fortnight before. From the doom and gloom after Stade de France \u2013 the concern over whether Ireland were a spent force, the worry that senior players were on the decline \u2013 rose a thunderous new wave of optimism about Andy Farrell\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>In between, victory over a much-improved Italy team got Ireland back on a winning track, but it was a mixed bag of a performance. For now, that game may be the best barometer of where Ireland are. Yet their showing in Twickenham resets the level to chase.<\/p>\n<p>By his standards, Farrell was scathing of his team post-Paris, calling into question their intent. Having made it clear that such timidity wasn\u2019t acceptable, Farrell built his players\u2019 confidence, reminding them of the brilliance they\u2019re capable of. That culminated in a record-breaking hammering of the English.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Ireland have a shot at securing the Triple Crown for the second year in a row, with Wales and Scotland to visit Dublin in the next two weekends.<\/p>\n<p>So this is the story of how Farrell\u2019s team turned things around. There are still concerning elements of their form, but the Ireland boss has got supporters believing again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Murray Kinsella Rugby Correspondent The exhilarating feeling for more than 20,000 Irish fans in Twickenham two weekends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-327169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327169","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=327169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}