{"id":526111,"date":"2026-06-30T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526111\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:36:09","slug":"four-changes-to-ireland-under-20-side-for-clash-with-argentina-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526111\/","title":{"rendered":"Four changes to Ireland Under-20 side for clash with Argentina \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-rugby-u-20s\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-rugby-u-20s\">Ireland<\/a> head coach Andrew Browne has made four changes from the side beaten by England for Thursday\u2019s World Rugby Junior World Championship encounter against Argentina at the Avchala Stadium in Tbilisi (12.30, Irish time).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Jack Deegan, a try scorer when coming on as a replacement at half-time against England, comes in at outside centre, while Tom Wood gets the starting 10 jersey. Garryowen\u2019s Joe Finn is named alongside Donnacha McGuire in the secondrow, while Shannon openside flanker Alex Lautsou will wear the seven shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Centre Rob Carney, outhalf Charlie O\u2019Shea, secondrow Dylan McNeice and Ben Blaney, all of whom started last Saturday, are named in the replacements. Argentina hammered the USA in their opening fixture. Thursday\u2019s match is live on Premier Sports and RugbyPass TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">IRELAND UNDER-20: Noah Byrne (Dublin University\/Leinster); Charlie Molony (UCD\/Leinster), Jack Deegan (Blackrock\/Leinster), James O\u2019Leary (UCC\/Munster), Daniel Ryan (Corinthians\/Connacht); Tom Wood (Garryowen\/Munster), Christopher Barrett (UCC\/Munster); Max Doyle (UCD\/Leinster), Rian Handley (Old Wesley\/Leinster), Sami Bishti (UCD\/Leinster, capt); Joe Finn (Garryowen\/Munster), Donnacha McGuire (UCD\/Leinster); Josh Neill (Old Wesley\/Leinster), Alex Lautsou (Shannon\/Munster), Diarmaid O\u2019Connell (Corinthians\/Connacht). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Replacements: Duinn Maguire (UCD\/Leinster), Adam Cooper (Buccaneers\/Connacht), Blake McClean (Instonians\/Ulster), Dylan McNeice (UCD\/Leinster), Ben Blaney (Terenure\/Leinster), James O\u2019Dwyer (Old Belvedere\/Leinster), Charlie O\u2019Shea (UCC\/Munster), Rob Carney (Cashel\/Munster).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Andrew Browne has made four changes from the side beaten by England for Thursday\u2019s World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,39220,43],"class_list":["post-526111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby-u20s","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526111","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=526111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}