{"id":544797,"date":"2026-07-11T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544797\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:58:09","slug":"ireland-struggle-to-japan-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544797\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland struggle to Japan victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A late flourish saw Ireland secure a Nations Championship win against Japan 36-20 in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Stewart went over for a late try to give a more convincing look to the scoreline as the Irish made it two wins from two.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Andy Farrell&#8217;s side scored five tries to secure a second straight bonus-point win. Connacht number eight Sean Jansen marked his debut with a try and was one of Ireland&#8217;s standout performers.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed. Ireland now travel to Auckland for their next fixture against the All Blacks. Whereas New Zealand beat Italy 41-17 in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Shannonside rugby correspondent Matthew Towey was not impressed with the Irish performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A late flourish saw Ireland secure a Nations Championship win against Japan 36-20 in Australia. Tom Stewart went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-544797","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\/544797","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=544797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}