The Ireland Under-20s got the job done in difficult weather conditions as they defeated Fiji 38-0 to qualify for the IRB Junior World Championship semi-finals for the first time.<\/p>\n
There will be a full repeat of the match on TG4 at 12.30pm with highlights being shown at 7.30pm this evening.<\/p>\n
POST-MATCH AUDIO: MIKE RUDDOCK CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n Ciaran Gaffney and Conor McKeon both crossed the whitewash, in addition to three penalty tries, to send Mike Ruddock’s side through as Pool B winners. Previously unbeaten France lost top spot after going down 13-3 to Wales.<\/p>\n The Auckland wind and rain played their part in an error-strewn first half as Ireland’s bid for a bonus point win – a result which guaranteed their place in the last-four – took a while to get off the ground…….. for the full story follow :>> http:\/\/www.irishrugby.ie\/rugby\/fixturesandresults\/32009.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ireland Under-20s got the job done in difficult weather conditions as they defeated Fiji 38-0 to qualify for the IRB Junior World Championship semi-finals for the first time. There will be a full repeat of the match on TG4 at 12.30pm with highlights being shown at 7.30pm this evening. POST-MATCH AUDIO: MIKE RUDDOCK CLICK […]<\/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":[14475,8750,3915],"class_list":["post-68930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-ireland-u-20s","tag-place","tag-semi-final"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68930","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=68930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68934,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68930\/revisions\/68934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}