{"id":338231,"date":"2026-03-10T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338231\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:48:08","slug":"are-scotland-primed-to-finally-beat-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338231\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Scotland primed to finally beat Ireland? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A sensational weekend of Six Nations action leaves us anticipating a bumper Super Saturday to decide the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Gordon D\u2019Arcy joins Nathan Johns to pick through Ireland\u2019s win over Wales, Scotland\u2019s thumping of France and Italy\u2019s historic victory over England. Scotland, France and Ireland are all mathematically in the hunt for the title, while the winner of Ireland vs Scotland will take home the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Might this finally be the weekend where Scotland, fresh off their stunning win over France, get over their Ireland hoodoo?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Produced by John Casey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sensational weekend of Six Nations action leaves us anticipating a bumper Super Saturday to decide the title.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59241,1452,61,60,1449,132479,43,75784,15551,92456],"class_list":["post-338231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-england-rugby","tag-france-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-italy-rugby","tag-news","tag-scotland-rugby","tag-six-nations","tag-wales-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338231","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=338231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}