{"id":55339,"date":"2025-10-01T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55339\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:48:10","slug":"andrew-browne-appointed-as-ireland-under-20s-head-coach-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55339\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Browne appointed as Ireland under-20s head coach \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Andrew Browne has been named as the new <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 under-20<\/a>s head coach, replacing Neil Doak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 38-year-old Galway native and former Connacht player was an assistant coach with under Doak last season but now heads up a largely new coaching team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Browne will be assisted by former Ireland under-19s head coach Kieran Hallett and Ireland under-18s head coach Michael Hodge, while IRFU performance pathway scrum coach Seamus Toomey retains his position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Doak and Ian Keatley, who served as an assistant coach last season, have returned to their respective full-time provincial roles with Ulster and Munster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAndrew has been part of the programme for the last season, and his appointment ensures continuity, with Kieran Hallett and Michael Hodge bringing a wealth of knowledge to their roles having worked with this cohort of players in their previous age-grade coaching positions,\u201d said Peter Smyth, head of the IRFU\u2019s elite player pathway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe thank both Neil and Ian for their contributions to the programme in recent seasons as they return to their provincial roles,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The under-20s are due to meet for a three-day camp later this month, followed by a six-day camp in November ahead of a friendly fixture which will be confirmed in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Browne has been named as the new Ireland under-20s head coach, replacing Neil Doak. The 38-year-old Galway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,39220,43],"class_list":["post-55339","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\/55339","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=55339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}