{"id":488100,"date":"2025-10-10T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488100\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:33:09","slug":"connachts-cullie-tucker-to-lead-ireland-a-in-november-clash-against-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488100\/","title":{"rendered":"Connacht&#8217;s Cullie Tucker to lead Ireland &#8216;A&#8217; in November clash against Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connacht scrum and contact coach Cullie Tucker will lead the Ireland &#8216;A&#8217; side to face Spain in November as Head Coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ireland &#8216;A&#8217; will take on Spain in Legan\u00e8s on Saturday November 8 (5pm local\/4pm Irish time) in a clash that will give young players exposure to game time at international level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tucker was part of the Coaching ticket for Ireland&#8217;s Summer Tour of Georgia and Portugal. He will be joined for the trip to Spain by Mossy Lawlor (Backs\/Attack Coach), Jimmy Duffy (Forwards Coach) and Sean O&#8217;Brien (Defence Coach).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This additional clash to the November calendar follows last season&#8217;s Ireland &#8216;A&#8217; game against England &#8216;A&#8217; in Bristol and will provide a broader pool of players with exposure to the National Team environment during the busy November window which will see Andy Farrrell&#8217;s side will take on New Zealand in Chicago in The Gallagher Cup before facing Japan, Australia and South Africa in the Quilter Nations Series at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The game will take place at the Estadio Municipal de Butarque with streaming details to be announced at a later date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Ireland &#8216;A&#8217; squad will be announce in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht scrum and contact coach Cullie Tucker will lead the Ireland &#8216;A&#8217; side to face Spain in November&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-488100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115349422451723578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}