{"id":661396,"date":"2026-10-21T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661396\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:42:09","slug":"andy-farrell-names-strong-ireland-nations-championship-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661396\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Farrell names strong Ireland Nations Championship squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting times!<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Andy Farrell has named his Ireland squad for the upcoming Nations Championship games next month.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland begin their campaign against Argentina on November 6 (kick-off: 8.10pm), before facing Fiji on November 14 (kick-off: 8.10pm), and South Africa on November 21 (kick-off: 4.40pm).<\/p>\n<p>Dan Sheehan captains the squad, while there are two uncapped players named: Ulster&#8217;s James McNabney makes the cut after an injury to Jack Conan has ruled him out, and Ulster&#8217;s new signing, Jamie Benson is included as the third out-half.<\/p>\n<p>Connacht prop duo, Billy Bohan and Sam Illo &#8211; who made their debuts against Japan this summer &#8211; have also made been named, with the likes of Jeremy Loughman, Alex Usanov, Kieran Brookes, Finlay Bealham and Jack Aungier missing out.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland Nations Championship squad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exciting times! Head coach Andy Farrell has named his Ireland squad for the upcoming Nations Championship games next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-661396","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\/661396","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=661396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}