{"id":257768,"date":"2025-12-30T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257768\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:16:09","slug":"ciaran-frawley-and-irfu-eye-the-bigger-picture-as-fringe-star-plays-his-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257768\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciar\u00e1n Frawley and IRFU eye the bigger picture as fringe star plays his hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster's, from left, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley, Sam Prendergast and Cormac Foley during squad training at Rosemount in UCD. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8928154e-4013-41a2-928a-71013c3c5d0f.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)\">Leinster&#8217;s, from left, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley, Sam Prendergast and Cormac Foley during squad training at Rosemount in UCD. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/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)\">As Leinster assembled for their first training session of the week yesterday morning, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley gathered his colleagues together before saying a few words.<\/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 was confirming something that, deep down, he had privately contemplated for weeks, and which his teammates had already known for several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster&#8217;s, from left, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley, Sam Prendergast and Cormac Foley during squad training at Rosemount in UCD. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[23199,105672,18,19,17,12861,53475,132],"class_list":["post-257768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-david-kelly","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-leo-cullen","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115807767308803013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257768","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=257768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}