{"id":98491,"date":"2025-10-23T04:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/98491\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:48:08","slug":"those-boys-will-be-missed-time-for-the-next-tier-of-leaders-to-fill-irelands-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/98491\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Those boys will be missed\u2019 \u2013 Time for the next tier of leaders to fill Ireland\u2019s void"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Conor Murray and Peter O\u2019Mahony are two of the leaders Ireland have lost to retirement. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/acc14105-1cdc-4862-8052-094c8082d01c.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)\">Conor Murray and Peter O\u2019Mahony are two of the leaders Ireland have lost to retirement. Photo by Seb Daly\/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)\">The back seat of the Ireland team bus will look and feel very different as it winds its way around the streets of Chicago this week.<\/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)\">For so long, Peter O\u2019Mahony, Conor Murray and Cian Healy ruled the roost down the back, until recently they had Keith Earls and Johnny Sexton for company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Murray and Peter O\u2019Mahony are two of the leaders Ireland have lost to retirement. Photo by Seb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25747,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-98491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andy-farrell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98491","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=98491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}