{"id":354128,"date":"2026-03-19T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354128\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:10:13","slug":"ian-madigan-having-memes-of-myself-crying-at-the-2015-world-cup-sent-to-me-every-weekend-for-years-ive-become-pretty-battle-hardened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354128\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Madigan: \u2018Having memes of myself crying at the 2015 World Cup sent to me every weekend for years, I\u2019ve become pretty battle-hardened\u2019"},"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\">Retired rugby star Ian Madigan tells Pat McCarry how he\u2019s adapting to fatherhood, life after sport and why he\u2019s subjecting himself to a comedy roast\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ian Madigan has an emotional reaction after 2015 Rugby World Cup game against France. Photo: Matt Browne\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bb4d538c-884c-42eb-baa6-a2d6e4e2828b.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)\">Ian Madigan has an emotional reaction after 2015 Rugby World Cup game against France. Photo: Matt Browne\/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)\">Ian Madigan is looking remarkably fresh for a man with a one-year-old, a new job and several punditry and podcast pots on the boil. \u201cThat must be the Botox,\u201d he jokes.<\/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)\">\u201cI enjoy keeping my schedule full,\u201d the former Leinster and Ireland star \u2013 who is currently a rugby analyst for the Indo Sport podcast \u2013 says. \u201cI had a bit of time off between jobs recently and I probably thought I\u2019d enjoy it a bit more than I actually did. I had more spare time and found the middle of the weeks very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retired rugby star Ian Madigan tells Pat McCarry how he\u2019s adapting to fatherhood, life after sport and why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86051,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-354128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ian-madigan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354128","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=354128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}