{"id":393664,"date":"2026-04-11T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:05:11","slug":"ireland-boss-scott-bemand-says-team-are-hungry-to-get-better-quickly-following-england-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393664\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland boss Scott Bemand says team are \u2018hungry to get better quickly\u2019 following England loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons Ireland is tackled by Megan Jones of England during the Women's Six Nations Rugby Championship match at Twickenham, London. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sports3423403.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)\">B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons Ireland is tackled by Megan Jones of England during the Women&#8217;s Six Nations Rugby Championship match at Twickenham, London. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/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)\">Ireland head coach Scott Bemand said it was always going to be a tough ask against the World Cup champions following their 33-12 defeat to England in their opening game of the Women\u2019s Six Nations at Twickenham.<\/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 trailed a dominant Red Roses side 21-0 at half-time before substitute winger Anna McGann and captain Erin King scored two tries in the final quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons Ireland is tackled by Megan Jones of England during the Women&#8217;s Six Nations Rugby Championship match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4173],"class_list":{"0":"post-393664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sinead-kissane"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393664","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=393664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}