{"id":521563,"date":"2026-06-27T18:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521563\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:07:10","slug":"irelands-world-junior-rugby-championship-begins-with-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521563\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s World junior rugby championship begins with defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland were left with work to do after an opening round defeat to England in the Junior World Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Browne\u2019s side now have work to do in the coming rounds, losing out 34-27 in in Tbilisi.<\/p>\n<p>Despite racing into a 12\u20130 lead, Ireland found themselves trailing by 12 points at the break. England registered 24 unanswered points in the first-half.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Byrne and Jack Deegan both crossed the English whitewash in the second-half along with Daniel Ryan who completed his hat-trick of tries.<\/p>\n<p>However, it wasn\u2019t enough as England started their campaign with a seven point win.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland face last year\u2019s semi-finalists Argentina in their next outing on Thursday. They hope to secure a top-two finish in the pool, with a kick off time of 12:30pm Irish time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland were left with work to do after an opening round defeat to England in the Junior World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,3654],"class_list":["post-521563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521563","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=521563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}