{"id":131549,"date":"2025-10-19T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131549\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:53:08","slug":"bernard-jackman-new-munster-leaders-revive-this-old-rivalry-with-deserved-scalp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131549\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Jackman: New Munster leaders revive this old rivalry with deserved scalp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nLeo Cullen\u2019s side left to work out where it all went wrong\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Crowley celebrates Munster winning a penalty during his side's United Rugby Championship clash with Leinster at Croke Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/767aeea3-9462-44e5-9409-bc12903897c4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jack Crowley celebrates Munster winning a penalty during his side&#8217;s United Rugby Championship clash with Leinster at Croke Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Leinster versus Munster is one of the biggest derbies in world rugby and to get a crowd of just under 52,000 into Croke park yesterday was no mean feat. It tells me there is still a great appetite for this rivalry amongst Irish rugby fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But to keep that rivalry going it was important that Munster fired some shots and asked lots of questions of a star-studded Leinster side and that\u2019s exactly what they did, recording a very impressive bonus-point victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leo Cullen\u2019s side left to work out where it all went wrong Jack Crowley celebrates Munster winning a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12861,12311,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-131549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-leinster-rugby","12":"tag-munster-rugby","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}