{"id":387399,"date":"2026-03-16T04:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/387399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:53:09","slug":"tony-ward-from-the-paris-no-show-to-what-weve-seen-since-has-been-a-spellbinding-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/387399\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ward: From the Paris no-show to what we\u2019ve seen since has been a spellbinding transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ireland underline that wing is king as Andy Farrell\u2019s men emerge from Six Nations campaign in rude health\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland captain Caelan Doris lifts the Triple Crown trophy after his side's victory over Scotland. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/151e9871-65b9-48fb-a925-16d68dabd606.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 captain Caelan Doris lifts the Triple Crown trophy after his side&#8217;s victory over Scotland. 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)\">In the end we came up just short, but if there has been a more engrossing or more entertaining Five\/Six Nations than what we have been privileged to witness over the last six weeks, then I sure can\u2019t recall it.<\/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)\">Super Saturday in a rugby context turned out \u2013 as we had anticipated \u2013 to be all of that and more. I love my round ball with equal passion but whereas association football has serious problems in its current make-up, rugby union has the potential \u2018to be great again\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland underline that wing is king as Andy Farrell\u2019s men emerge from Six Nations campaign in rude health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,53479,18,19,17,132,72537],"class_list":{"0":"post-387399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-caelan-doris","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tony-ward"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116237068101457001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387399","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=387399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}