{"id":556048,"date":"2026-07-18T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556048\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:45:15","slug":"all-blacks-maintain-eden-park-dominance-as-ireland-suffer-nations-championship-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556048\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks maintain Eden Park dominance as Ireland suffer Nations Championship defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAll Blacks maintain Eden Park dominance as Ireland suffer Nations Championship defeat\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Zealand produced a powerful second-half performance to defeat Ireland 40-21 in the Nations Championship at Eden Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The All Blacks ran in six tries during an impressive display, with Patrick Tuipulotu, Ardie Savea, Will Jordan, Asafo Aumua, Damian McKenzie and Anton Lienert-Brown all crossing the whitewash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ireland responded with tries from Jack Conan, Joe McCarthy and Hugo Keenan, but New Zealand ultimately proved too strong as they maintained their remarkable record at Eden Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The All Blacks have not lost at the Auckland venue since 1994 and have now won their opening three games of the Nations Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ireland will now look to regroup after a difficult afternoon against a New Zealand side that once again showed their quality on home soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sport on WLR is brought to you by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoboland.ie\/ford\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Auto Boland Ford.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the latest Waterford\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wlrfm.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrfm.com\/sport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sport<\/a>, tune into WLR News on the hour and download the WLR App for news on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Blacks maintain Eden Park dominance as Ireland suffer Nations Championship defeat New Zealand produced a powerful second-half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-556048","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\/556048","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=556048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}