{"id":372820,"date":"2026-03-30T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372820\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:45:09","slug":"irfu-poised-to-poach-australias-hottest-prospect-as-massimo-de-lutiis-ponders-life-changing-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372820\/","title":{"rendered":"IRFU poised to poach Australia\u2019s hottest prospect as Massimo De Lutiis ponders \u2018life-changing\u2019 deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Massimo De Lutiis, pictured in action for Australia 'A', is on the IRFU's radar. Photo: Mike Hewitt\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/178dcd16-182e-401f-82db-713fc2c3528a.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)\">Massimo De Lutiis, pictured in action for Australia &#8216;A&#8217;, is on the IRFU&#8217;s radar. Photo: Mike Hewitt\/Getty Images<\/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)\">Ireland are leading the chase for a player touted as one of Australia\u2019s hottest prospects with 22-year-old tight-head Massimo De Lutiis on the verge of signing an eye-watering deal.<\/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)\">Respected Australian rugby writer Jamie Pandaram has reported overnight that De Lutiis, who qualifies for Ireland on his mother\u2019s side of the family, is under pressure to make a decision as the IRFU remain poised to make a sensational poach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massimo De Lutiis, pictured in action for Australia &#8216;A&#8217;, is on the IRFU&#8217;s radar. Photo: Mike Hewitt\/Getty Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8495,61,60,4174,112],"class_list":["post-372820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-david-kelly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372820","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=372820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}