{"id":526539,"date":"2026-06-30T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526539\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:01:09","slug":"ireland-u20s-make-four-changes-for-argentina-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526539\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland U20s make four changes for Argentina clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland U20 manager Andrew Browne has made four changes to his side for the World Rugby Junior Championship pool C clash with Argentina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leinster&#8217;s Jack Deegan and Munster&#8217;s Tom Wood are named in the backline. Munster duo Joe Finn and Alex Lautsou come in at lock and openside flanker, respectively. Rob Carney, Charlie O&#8217;Shea, Dylan McNeice, and Ben Blaney are those to drop out from the team which started  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/rugby\/arid-41870193.html\">Saturday&#8217;s defeat to England.\u00a0<\/a>\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It means Ireland will again have an all-Munster half-back pairing with Chris Barrett starting at scrum-half alongside Wood.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thursday&#8217;s game at the Avchala Stadium in Tbilisi kicks off at 12:30pm Irish time (3:30pm local time). It will be broadcast live on Premier Sports and RugbyPass TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ireland&#8217;s final pool game will be against USA on Tuesday, July 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            IRELAND: Noah Byrne (Leinster); Charlie Molony (Leinster), Jack Deegan (Leinster), James O&#8217;Leary (Munster), Daniel Ryan (Connacht); Tom Wood (Munster), Christopher Barrett (Munster); Max Doyle (Leinster), Rian Handley (Leinster), Sami Bishti (Leinster, captain); Joe Finn (Munster), Donnacha McGuire (Leinster); Josh Neill (Leinster), Alex Lautsou (Munster), Diarmaid O&#8217;Connell (Connacht)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Replacements: Duinn Maguire (Leinster), Adam Cooper (Connacht), Blake McClean (Ulster), Dylan McNeice (Leinster), Ben Blaney (Leinster), James O&#8217;Dwyer (Leinster), Charlie O&#8217;Shea (Munster), Rob Carney (Munster)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland U20 manager Andrew Browne has made four changes to his side for the World Rugby Junior Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-526539","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\/526539","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=526539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}