{"id":48764,"date":"2013-06-17T15:44:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=48764"},"modified":"2013-06-17T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T14:44:54","slug":"second-place-finish-for-emerging-ireland-after-42-v-33-uruguay-with-an-annett-try-nelson-heaney-allen-in-the-thick-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/second-place-finish-for-emerging-ireland-after-42-v-33-uruguay-with-an-annett-try-nelson-heaney-allen-in-the-thick-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"SECOND PLACE FINISH FOR EMERGING IRELAND after 42 v 33 Uruguay &#8211; With an Annett Try + Nelson &#038; Heaney &#038; Allen in the thick of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Keatley touched down twice and converted all six of Emerging Ireland&#8217;s tries as they claimed a 42-33 bonus point win over Uruguay to finish as runners-up in the IRB Tbilisi Cup competition.<\/p>\n<p>The South Africa President&#8217;s XV were crowned champions after their third straight victory &#8211; a 21-16 defeat of Georgia &#8211; leaving Allen Clarke&#8217;s Irish side with the sole aim of leapfrogging the second-placed Georgians in the final table.<\/p>\n<p>They went about their business in clinical fashion in the first 20 minutes, crossing three times as Ian Keatley grabbed a brace and winger Tiernan O&#8217;Halloran also touched down for a 21-7 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Two high quality scores from Niall Morris, allied to a Niall Annett try from a clever lineout move, pushed Clarke&#8217;s charges 42-14 in front by the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>But Clarke and his coaching staff will have been disappointed with a sloppy final quarter during which the Uruguayans struck for three tries and their forwards found a second wind&#8230;&#8230;.. full story CLICK HERE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Keatley touched down twice and converted all six of Emerging Ireland&#8217;s tries as they claimed a 42-33 bonus point win over Uruguay to finish as runners-up in the IRB Tbilisi Cup competition. The South Africa President&#8217;s XV were crowned champions after their third straight victory &#8211; a 21-16 defeat of Georgia &#8211; leaving Allen [&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":[12011,4050,3959],"class_list":["post-48764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-emerging","tag-ireland","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764","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=48764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48767,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764\/revisions\/48767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}