{"id":393512,"date":"2026-04-11T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:40:09","slug":"ireland-fail-to-deliver-in-six-nations-opener-as-englands-twickenham-homecoming-falls-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393512\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland fail to deliver in Six Nations opener as England\u2019s Twickenham homecoming falls flat"},"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\">England 33 Ireland 12\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nancy McGillivray of Ireland is tackled by Ellie Kildunne of England during the Women's Six Nations match at Twickenham, London. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sports3423114.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)\">Nancy McGillivray of Ireland is tackled by Ellie Kildunne of England during the Women&#8217;s Six Nations match at Twickenham, London. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p>David Kelly at Twickenham<\/p>\n<p>Today at 17:50<\/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)\">Defeat with no disgrace is hardly a lofty ambition but despite the obvious inevitability of this one, Scott Bemand\u2019s Ireland will elicit deep disappointment at the manner of their demise against the reigning Six Nations and World champions.<\/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)\">England were often indifferent, Ireland too often diffident. The visitors failed to fire any meaningful shots, instead shooting themselves repeatedly in the foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England 33 Ireland 12 Nancy McGillivray of Ireland is tackled by Ellie Kildunne of England during the Women&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-393512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393512","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=393512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}