{"id":505381,"date":"2026-06-18T03:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505381\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:24:15","slug":"andy-farrell-names-ireland-rugby-summer-tour-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505381\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell names Ireland rugby summer tour squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong selection!<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Andy Farrell has named his 36-man Ireland squad for their upcoming summer tour, with matches against Australia, Japan and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, it is a strong selection with few surprises.<\/p>\n<p>However, given injuries to key players, there are three new faces and a handful of more inexperienced men.<\/p>\n<p>Caelan Doris captains the squad, with Connacht trio &#8211; tighthead Sam Illo, loosehead Billy Bohan, and number eight Sean Jansen &#8211; the uncapped players.<\/p>\n<p>There was speculation whether Jack Crowley would overcome his injuries in time, but he has been left out, with Sam Prendergast, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley and Harry Byrne the out-half options.<\/p>\n<p>[dbo-widget]<\/p>\n<p>Ireland Fixtures:<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 4 July: Australia v Ireland, Allianz Stadium, Sydney, 8.10pm local time\/11.10am Irish timeSaturday, 11 July: Japan v Ireland, McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle, 8.10pm local time\/11.10am Irish time\u00a0Saturday, 18 July: New Zealand v Ireland, Eden Park, Auckland, 7.10pm local time\/8.10am Irish time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong selection! Head coach Andy Farrell has named his 36-man Ireland squad for their upcoming summer tour,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-505381","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\/505381","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=505381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}