{"id":348148,"date":"2026-03-15T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348148\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:49:07","slug":"six-nations-synchronicity-evident-in-u-20-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348148\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations synchronicity evident in U-20 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much like their senior peers, Ireland&#8217;s Under-20 stars wrapped up their Six Nations campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/rugby\/2026\/0315\/1563566-ireland-u20s-seal-triple-crown-after-swatting-scots-aside\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with victory over Scotland<\/a>, a Triple Crown, and a sense of accomplishment in the manner they ultimately responded to a drubbing by France in their opener.<\/p>\n<p>Les Bleus outclassed Andrew Browne&#8217;s charges 50-21 in Perpignan in early February en route to a Grand Slam, one that was confirmed on Sunday night with a deja vu-esque victory over England.<\/p>\n<p>However, wins over all four of their subsequent opponents ensured Ireland finished second in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Following their 47-14 win over Scotland, out-half Tom Wood \u2013 son of former Ireland captain Keith \u2013 told RT\u00c9 Sport: &#8220;I thought we showed great grit and determination to put a big score on them, and they are a good side, so we are pretty happy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t have the greatest start but we always believed in what we had.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got unlucky and France were much better on the day, but I think the way we&#8217;ve built since that game is just incredible and we really got behind each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew we could do better and I&#8217;m really happy how we went on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Tom Wood is named player of the match in Ireland U20s&#8217; win over Scotland U-20s <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tbjktQkrm7\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tbjktQkrm7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTEsport\/status\/2033232005639397473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Captain Sami Bishti added: &#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely incredible. It&#8217;s so cool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Especially for the senior team to do it yesterday \u2013 and we&#8217;re obviously truly inspired by them \u2013 and then for us to come out and do it is a credit to all the hard work we&#8217;ve put in throughout the tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Ireland U-20 captain Sami Bishti reflects on his side&#8217;s Triple Crown feat <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CUTHjL7T2J\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CUTHjL7T2J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTEsport\/status\/2033233045843550659\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much like their senior peers, Ireland&#8217;s Under-20 stars wrapped up their Six Nations campaign with victory over Scotland,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-348148","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\/348148","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=348148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}