{"id":623948,"date":"2026-06-06T06:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623948\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:02:28","slug":"eamon-ocarroll-scarlets-recruit-from-rugby-league-for-their-new-defence-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623948\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamon O&#8217;Carroll: Scarlets recruit from rugby league for their new defence coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scarlets have appointed Eamon O&#8217;Carroll as their new defence coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old former Ireland international will join the Llanelli region from St Helens at the end of the Super League season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Carroll has previously held roles as head coach of Bradford Bulls and Newcastle Thunder and was assistant coach at Catalans Dragons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The opportunity to join Scarlets was one that really excited me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always tried to challenge myself throughout my career and step outside my comfort zone because that&#8217;s when I feel I do my best work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Scarlets is a great club with huge history, strong values and clearly means everything to its supporters and the whole region in west Wales.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scarlets have appointed Eamon O&#8217;Carroll as their new defence coach. The 38-year-old former Ireland international will join the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623948","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\/623948","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=623948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}