{"id":148443,"date":"2025-10-27T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148443\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:28:11","slug":"as-shane-lowry-said-ive-a-chance-to-do-the-coolest-thing-in-my-life-ex-munster-centre-barry-murphy-relishing-anthem-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148443\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018As Shane Lowry said, I\u2019ve a chance to do the coolest thing in my life\u2019 \u2013 Ex-Munster centre Barry Murphy relishing anthem honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barry Murphy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/722e4611-b543-4a81-ba1e-baf15dfa1119.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)\">Barry Murphy<\/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)\">Barry Murphy never got to sing Amhr\u00e1n na bhFiann when lining out for Ireland because he won all his four caps away from home \u2013 two in Argentina on the 2007 summer tour, and one each in Canada and the USA on the 2009 summer tour.<\/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)\">Murphy will return to America this week, and take a big step towards fulfilling that lifelong ambition, even if it will be in a different guise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Murphy Barry Murphy never got to sing Amhr\u00e1n na bhFiann when lining out for Ireland because he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[39921,18,19,67397,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-148443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-international-rugby","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115448257669790374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148443","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=148443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}