{"id":177842,"date":"2025-11-13T04:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/177842\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T04:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:27:13","slug":"danny-ruddock-world-cups-cant-be-the-be-all-and-end-all-for-irish-test-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/177842\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Ruddock: World Cups can\u2019t be the be-all and end-all for Irish Test rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland celebrate Josh van der Flier's try during the Steinlager Series match between the New Zealand and Ireland at Sky Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand in July 2022. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ebc7f1e8-b070-4c39-bd20-2006131af8e7.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)\">Ireland celebrate Josh van der Flier&#8217;s try during the Steinlager Series match between the New Zealand and Ireland at Sky Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand in July 2022. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">Could we all just stop for a minute? It was bad enough before France in 2023, and the last few weeks have really taken it a step further.<\/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)\">Rugby has to be about more than what happens over six weeks every four years. Hopefully it\u2019s just the nature of the autumn internationals and it won\u2019t be as omnipresent come Six Nations time, but I wouldn\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland celebrate Josh van der Flier&#8217;s try during the Steinlager Series match between the New Zealand and Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,18,19,17,36441,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-177842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-rugby-world-cup","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115540501773646518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177842","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=177842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}