Brideswell\u2019s Darragh Murray has been called up to the Irish rugby squad ahead of their inaugural Nations Championship campaign.<\/p>\n
The South Roscommon native has been given another vote of confidence after his memorable Six Nations debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Murray scored a try on his inaugural appearance in the competition to help Ireland beat Scotland and secure the Triple Crown at the Aviva Stadium back in March.<\/p>\n
He made his international debut last summer when he lined out for his country against Georgia before earning his second cap against Portugal.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month Murray was named in the URC Team of the Season (Elite XV) for 2025\/26.<\/p>\n
Ireland will kick off their campaign against Australia, Japan and New Zealand in July, with Farrell selecting a 36-player squad to travel to Sydney on Monday.<\/p>\n
Caelan Doris will captain the Ireland squad, which includes the uncapped Connacht trio of Billy Bohan, Sam Illo and Sean Jansen.<\/p>\n
Ryan Baird, Shayne Bolton, Jack Boyle, Jack Crowley, Edwin Edogbo, Tom Farrell, Mack Hansen, Paddy McCarthy, Calvin Nash and Andrew Porter are all unavailable due to injury.<\/p>\n
Ireland open their Nations Championship campaign against Australia at a sold-out Allianz Stadium in Sydney on Saturday, July 4 (8.10pm local time\/11.10am Irish time), before going head-to-head with Japan at McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle on Saturday, July 11 (8.10pm local time\/11.10am Irish time).<\/p>\n
Farrell\u2019s side then travel to Auckland for a Round 3 clash with New Zealand on Saturday, July 18 (7.10pm local time\/8.10am Irish time), with all matches in the Nations Championship live on Virgin Media One and Virgin Media Play in the Republic of Ireland and ITV in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brideswell\u2019s Darragh Murray has been called up to the Irish rugby squad ahead of their inaugural Nations Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-505061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505061","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=505061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}