{"id":74133,"date":"2014-10-10T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=74133"},"modified":"2020-10-24T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T11:50:32","slug":"mens-sevens-rugby-now-seriously-agenda-irish-rugby-insider-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/mens-sevens-rugby-now-seriously-agenda-irish-rugby-insider-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Sevens Rugby now seriously on the agenda for Irish Rugby &#8211; Insider Story LIVE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"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.<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 http:\/\/www.thescore.ie\/irfu-sevens-2020-olympics-japan-1716637-Oct2014\/<\/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":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15081,7493,5668,6044,3959,5081],"class_list":["post-74133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-agenda","tag-mens","tag-now","tag-on","tag-rugby","tag-sevens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74133","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=74133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633076,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74133\/revisions\/633076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}