{"id":55216,"date":"2025-10-01T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55216\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:10","slug":"irfu-to-shake-up-u-20s-coaching-ticket-with-andrew-browne-replacing-neil-doak-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55216\/","title":{"rendered":"IRFU to shake up U-20s coaching ticket with Andrew Browne replacing Neil Doak as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew Browne is taking over as the Ireland U-20s head coach. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0efdbf6d-b62b-47a8-9264-227b03d49e3d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Andrew Browne is taking over as the Ireland U-20s head coach. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Andrew Browne will be tasked with resurrecting the fortunes of the Ireland U-20s this season after last year\u2019s crop finished bottom of the Six Nations and narrowly avoided the same fate at the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last season\u2019s coach, Neil Doak, will no longer be involved, with the former Connacht second-row Browne stepping up from his role as an assistant to lead a management team that includes Leinster Academy coach Kieran Hallett, IRFU scrum coach Seamus Toomey and the IRFU\u2019s elite player pathway chief Michael Hodge assisting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Browne is taking over as the Ireland U-20s head coach. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile Andrew Browne will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-55216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55216","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=55216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}