{"id":104074,"date":"2025-10-05T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/104074\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:11:12","slug":"things-changed-at-leinster-the-last-two-or-three-years-it-was-a-pretty-easy-decision-to-move-to-gloucester-ross-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/104074\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Things changed at Leinster the last two or three years &#8230; it was a pretty easy decision to move to Gloucester\u2019 \u2013 Ross Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">In his first interview since making the switch to England, the former Ireland outhalf explains his transfer and reflects on his career to date\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ross Byrne: \u2018Last year in particular, there was a lot of frustration and a few different things, so I just knew it was the right time for me to go.\u2019 Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3027087.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)\">Ross Byrne: \u2018Last year in particular, there was a lot of frustration and a few different things, so I just knew it was the right time for me to go.\u2019 Photo: 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)\">Ross Byrne will forever be tangled up in blue, yet the Dubliner had no doubts the time was right to leave Leinster last summer. <\/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)\">He spent the summer getting to know new teammates and understanding the way Gloucester want to play, knowing that he\u2019d been signed as a senior player and would be expected to lead from the off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first interview since making the switch to England, the former Ireland outhalf explains his transfer and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,34991,12861,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-104074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","12":"tag-leinster-rugby","13":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}