{"id":352827,"date":"2026-02-23T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/352827\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:34:09","slug":"analysing-irelands-big-win-and-a-try-decision-that-left-gordon-darcy-lost-for-words-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/352827\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysing Ireland\u2019s big win; and a try decision that left Gordon D\u2019Arcy lost for words \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">How many of you saw that coming? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/2026\/02\/21\/five-try-ireland-blow-england-away-on-record-breaking-afternoon-at-twickenham\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/2026\/02\/21\/five-try-ireland-blow-england-away-on-record-breaking-afternoon-at-twickenham\/\">A record Irish victory in Twickenham<\/a> was some way for Andy Farrell and co to change the narrative surrounding this side after a middling start to this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/six-nations\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/six-nations\/\">Six Nations<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Gordon D\u2019Arcy, John O\u2019Sullivan and Nathan Johns were all in London on Saturday and they link up once again to pick through how Ireland pulled off that performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Plus, we look at how Ireland U20s managed a similarly impressive victory over their English counterparts in Bath on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Produced by John Casey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How many of you saw that coming? A record Irish victory in Twickenham was some way for Andy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70904,9,10,53479,18,80725,13,14,6,19,17,34132,102575,73724,103112,11,12,15,16,5,96426,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-352827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-caelan-doris","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-england-rugby","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-ireland-rugby","20":"tag-ireland-rugby-u20s","21":"tag-jack-crowley","22":"tag-jamison-gibson-park","23":"tag-latest-news","24":"tag-latestnews","25":"tag-main-news","26":"tag-mainnews","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-six-nations","29":"tag-top-stories","30":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116122567473299650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352827","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=352827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}