{"id":276759,"date":"2026-01-09T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/276759\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:34:10","slug":"david-kelly-more-twists-and-turns-in-ronan-ogara-and-la-rochelles-road-to-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/276759\/","title":{"rendered":"David Kelly: More twists and turns in Ronan O\u2019Gara and La Rochelle\u2019s road to redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"La Rochelle head coach Ronan O'Gara. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1af416c5-8aa1-42a6-8827-a8386aba2eae.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)\">La Rochelle head coach Ronan O&#8217;Gara. 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)\">Sometimes one has to get completely lost before discovering the most beautiful pathways.<\/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)\">Seven days after shipping a 60-0 defeat to Toulouse in the self-acknowledged biggest defeat of his coaching career, Ronan O\u2019Gara witnessed his La Rochelle side pile 66 points on a youthful second-string Toulon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Rochelle head coach Ronan O&#8217;Gara. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile Sometimes one has to get completely lost before discovering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[65159,9,10,105672,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,12861,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-276759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ronan-ogara","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-david-kelly","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115867763711765564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276759","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=276759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}