{"id":145718,"date":"2025-10-26T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145718\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:17:09","slug":"munster-maintain-perfect-urc-start-under-clayton-mcmillan-with-narrow-win-over-connacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145718\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster maintain perfect URC start under Clayton McMillan with narrow win over Connacht"},"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\">Munster 17 Connacht 15\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alex Nankivell of Munster is tackled by Josh Murphy of Connacht during the United Rugby Championship match at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3269744.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)\">Alex Nankivell of Munster is tackled by Josh Murphy of Connacht during the United Rugby Championship match at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Ben McShane\/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)\">It was far from the precise performance of Croke Park, but two tries from captain Jack O\u2019Donoghue saw Munster secure a two-point victory over Connacht.<\/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)\">The consistency will need some polish after this messy contest, yet Clayton McMillan\u2019s men made it five wins from five with O\u2019Donoghue\u2019s try the only score of the second-half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster 17 Connacht 15 Alex Nankivell of Munster is tackled by Josh Murphy of Connacht during the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[23199,18,19,17,12311,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-145718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-connacht-rugby","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-munster-rugby","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115438776904858429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145718","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=145718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}