{"id":444301,"date":"2026-02-25T06:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444301\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:13:13","slug":"six-nations-stuart-mccloskey-delivering-for-ireland-garry-ringrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444301\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: Stuart McCloskey &#8216;delivering&#8217; for Ireland &#8211; Garry Ringrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland centre Garry Ringrose says he feels &#8220;lucky&#8221; to play alongside the in-form Stuart McCloskey in this year&#8217;s Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ulster&#8217;s McCloskey has been a standout performer for Ireland in their three games in the championship so far, dovetailing well with centre partner Ringrose in particular in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3ew5vk38g3o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">42-21 win<\/a> over England on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ringrose heaped praise on the 33-year-old, who has had to bide his time to shine on the international stage, and is delighted their partnership is functioning well in Ireland&#8217;s games so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel lucky to play alongside him. He&#8217;s going particularly well and [against England] he was brilliant,&#8221; Ringrose said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of the off-the-pitch or outside of the 80 minutes, we are working hard as a centres group, as a unit to try and get things right, be adaptable as to who&#8217;s in there and all be on the same page, while also then bringing that kind of uniqueness and individual quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re all buying into the collective and he&#8217;s properly delivering on bringing his uniqueness and individual strengths which has been evident the last few games.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland centre Garry Ringrose says he feels &#8220;lucky&#8221; to play alongside the in-form Stuart McCloskey in this year&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-444301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}