{"id":16975,"date":"2011-10-06T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T08:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=16975"},"modified":"2011-10-06T08:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T08:05:44","slug":"hooker-rory-best-has-been-named-to-start-in-the-ireland-team-to-play-wales-this-saturday-in-the-rugby-world-cup-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/hooker-rory-best-has-been-named-to-start-in-the-ireland-team-to-play-wales-this-saturday-in-the-rugby-world-cup-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooker Rory Best has been named to start in the Ireland Team to play Wales this Saturday in the Rugby World Cup Quarter Final."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Best named to start, Sean Cronin has also been named as the reserve hooker among the replacements.<\/p>\n<p>IRELAND Team &#038; Replacements (v Wales, 2011 Rugby World Cup Quarter Final, Wellington Regional Stadium, Saturday, October 8, kick-off 6:00pm local time\/6:00am Irish time):<\/p>\n<p>15 &#8211; Robert Kearney (UCD\/Leinster)<br \/>\n14 &#8211; Tommy Bowe (Ospreys)<br \/>\n13 &#8211; Brian O\u2019Driscoll (UCD\/Leinster) Captain<br \/>\n12 &#8211; Gordon D\u2019Arcy (Lansdowne\/Leinster)<br \/>\n11 &#8211; Keith Earls (Young Munster\/Munster)<br \/>\n10 &#8211; Ronan O&#8217;Gara (Cork Constitution\/Munster)<br \/>\n9 &#8211; Conor Murray (Garryowen\/Munster)<br \/>\n1 &#8211; Cian Healy (Clontarf\/Leinster)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterolivers.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pastedGraphic-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"click here for website\" width=\"200\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15135\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosportsdirect.com\/index.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9533\" title=\"Click Here For Eurosports Direct E-Commerce Website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eurosports.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"943\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2 &#8211; Rory Best (Banbridge\/Ulster)<br \/>\n3 &#8211; Mike Ross (Clontarf\/Leinster)<br \/>\n4 &#8211; Donncha O&#8217;Callaghan (Cork Constitution\/Munster)<br \/>\n5 &#8211; Paul O\u2019Connell (Young Munster\/Munster)<br \/>\n6 &#8211; Stephen Ferris (Dungannon\/Ulster)<br \/>\n7 &#8211; Sean O\u2019Brien (Clontarf\/Leinster)<br \/>\n8 &#8211; Jamie Heaslip (Naas\/Leinster)<\/p>\n<p>Replacements:<br \/>\n16 &#8211; Sean Cronin (Leinster)<br \/>\n17 &#8211; Tom Court (Malone\/Ulster)<br \/>\n18 &#8211; Donnacha Ryan (Shannon\/Munster)<br \/>\n19 &#8211; Denis Leamy (Cork Constitution\/Munster)<br \/>\n20 &#8211; Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne\/Leinster)<br \/>\n21 &#8211; Jonathan Sexton (St. Mary&#8217;s College\/Leinster)<br \/>\n22 &#8211; Andrew Trimble (Ballymena\/Ulster)<\/p>\n<p>N.B.  All player biographies are available on the Irish Rugby website www.irishrugby.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Best named to start, Sean Cronin has also been named as the reserve hooker among the replacements. IRELAND Team &#038; Replacements (v Wales, 2011 Rugby World Cup Quarter Final, Wellington Regional Stadium, Saturday, October 8, kick-off 6:00pm local time\/6:00am Irish time): 15 &#8211; Robert Kearney (UCD\/Leinster) 14 &#8211; Tommy Bowe (Ospreys) 13 &#8211; Brian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5687,5519,4773,7377,4050,7212,5741,4979,4055,5670],"class_list":["post-16975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-best","tag-cup","tag-final","tag-hooker","tag-ireland","tag-quarter","tag-rory","tag-team","tag-wales","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16976,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions\/16976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}