{"id":133320,"date":"2025-10-20T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133320\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:00:10","slug":"ireland-head-coach-andy-farrell-left-to-count-the-cost-of-bruising-weekend-ahead-of-departure-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133320\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell left to count the cost of bruising weekend ahead of departure to Chicago"},"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\">Tadhg Beirne insists they will have no excuses if they underperform against New Zealand despite injuries and lack of game time\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Connacht's Mack Hansen is taken off the pitch after picking up an injury against the Bulls at Dexcom Stadium. Photo: Thomas Flinkow\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/00df243c-c33c-4cd2-8e8b-be87713b4530.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)\">Connacht&#8217;s Mack Hansen is taken off the pitch after picking up an injury against the Bulls at Dexcom Stadium. Photo: Thomas Flinkow\/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 Ireland squad will gather in Dublin today ahead of tomorrow\u2019s departure to Chicago, as head coach Andy Farrell was left to count the cost of a bruising round of URC action, with attention now turning towards the clash with the All Blacks at Soldier Field on Saturday 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)\">Mack Hansen has emerged as a major doubt after he was stretchered off, having picked up a leg injury in the act of scoring a last-gasp try for Connacht in their narrow defeat to the Bulls on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadhg Beirne insists they will have no excuses if they underperform against New Zealand despite injuries and lack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[39921,18,19,67397,17,12861,12311,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-133320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-international-rugby","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-leinster-rugby","14":"tag-munster-rugby","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133320","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=133320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}