{"id":479598,"date":"2026-05-11T18:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479598\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:43:14","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-andy-farrell-has-a-big-decision-to-make-on-sam-prendergast-should-he-be-in-irelands-summer-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479598\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Andy Farrell has a big decision to make on Sam Prendergast \u2013 should he be in Ireland\u2019s summer squad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell, right, with Sam Prendergast before the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match against Australia at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3293463.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 head coach Andy Farrell, right, with Sam Prendergast before the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match against Australia at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/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)\">Andy Farrell must be a pretty contented figure as he surveys the landscape of Irish rugby right now.<\/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)\">Having steadied the ship during the Six Nations, there\u2019s been a bounce for the provinces, all firmly in the hunt for the URC top eight, with two of them looking forward to European finals next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Andy Farrell, right, with Sam Prendergast before the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match against Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,18,19,17,34991,12861,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-479598","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-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","13":"tag-leinster-rugby","14":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116557421384322850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479598","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=479598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}