{"id":45551,"date":"2026-07-12T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/nations-championship-much-changed-ireland-overcome-japan-36-20-as-debutants-impress\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:57:14","slug":"nations-championship-much-changed-ireland-overcome-japan-36-20-as-debutants-impress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/nations-championship-much-changed-ireland-overcome-japan-36-20-as-debutants-impress\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship: Much-changed Ireland overcome Japan 36-20 as debutants impress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nations Championship: Much-changed Ireland overcome Japan 36-20 as debutants impress Nick Timoney, Tom O&#8217;Toole and Robbie Henshaw scored in the first half before Sean Jansen and Tom Stewart added scores in the second half as Ireland beat Japan in Australia; Ireland have now picked up victories in their opening two games in the Nations Championship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/rugby-union\/news\/22063\/13562520\/nations-championship-much-changed-ireland-overcome-japan-36-20-as-debutants-impress\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nations Championship: Much-changed Ireland overcome Japan 36-20 as debutants impress Nick Timoney, Tom O&#8217;Toole and Robbie Henshaw scored in the first half before Sean Jansen and Tom Stewart added scores in the second half as Ireland beat Japan in Australia; Ireland have now picked up victories in their opening two games in the Nations ChampionshipRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}