{"id":146239,"date":"2025-10-26T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146239\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T13:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:11:12","slug":"license-to-roam-why-tommy-obrien-just-might-be-irelands-secret-weapon-against-the-all-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146239\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018License to roam\u2019 \u2013 Why Tommy O\u2019Brien just might be Ireland\u2019s secret weapon against the All Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tommy O'Brien could have a key role to play against New Zealand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7fb7b3e6-c037-4754-aa85-d907f316a592.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)\">Tommy O&#8217;Brien could have a key role to play against New Zealand<\/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)\">Gone are the days when the All Blacks didn\u2019t know the names of their Irish opponents, a decade of battles have seen the two teams develop a tasty rivalry.<\/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)\">Yet, while the Kiwis are more aware of Andy Farrell\u2019s stalwarts, they\u2019ll be unfamiliar with the man set to wear the No 14 shirt at Soldier Field next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy O&#8217;Brien could have a key role to play against New Zealand Gone are the days when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-146239","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-ruaidhri-oconnor","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115440640548764570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146239","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=146239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}