{"id":2684,"date":"2014-10-10T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2014-10-10T22:24:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T21:24:36","slug":"mens-sevens-rugby-now-seriously-agenda-irish-rugby-insider-story-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/mens-sevens-rugby-now-seriously-agenda-irish-rugby-insider-story-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Sevens Rugby now seriously on the agenda for Irish Rugby &#8211; Insider Story LIVE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/irish-7s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/irish-7s.jpg\" alt=\"irish 7s\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/irish-7s.jpg 640w, https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/irish-7s-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTHE IRFU IS ready to embrace men\u2019s rugby sevens again, with qualifying an Ireland team for the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan the long-term target.<br \/>\nIreland has been without a senior international men\u2019s sevens squad since 2009, when a side including Munster\u2019s Felix Jones and Ulster scrum-half Paul Marshall finished as runners-up in the bowl competition.<br \/>\nThere has been much frustration among the rugby community in Ireland at the lack of IRFU support for men\u2019s sevens in recent years \u2013 a women\u2019s team are currently striving to qualify for the 2016 Olympics \u2013 but the IRFU are now ready to accept the growing power of the seven-player code&#8230;&#8230;. for the full story go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescore.ie\/irfu-sevens-2020-olympics-japan-1716637-Oct2014\/\">http:\/\/www.thescore.ie\/irfu-sevens-2020-olympics-japan-1716637-Oct2014\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE IRFU IS ready to embrace men\u2019s rugby sevens again, with qualifying an Ireland team for the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan the long-term target. Ireland has been without a senior international men\u2019s sevens squad since 2009, when a side including Munster\u2019s Felix Jones and Ulster scrum-half Paul Marshall finished as runners-up in the bowl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[1311,596,1309,104,26,1310,2448],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-agenda","tag-mens","tag-now","tag-on","tag-rugby","tag-seriously","tag-sevens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}