{"id":226944,"date":"2025-12-11T06:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/226944\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T06:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:55:19","slug":"harry-byrne-set-to-start-for-leinster-against-leicester-as-leo-cullen-primes-rieko-ioane-for-midfield-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/226944\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Byrne set to start for Leinster against Leicester as Leo Cullen primes Rieko Ioane for midfield role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harry Byrne of Leinster kicks a conversion during the Investec Champions Cup win over Harlequins at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sports3305156.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)\">Harry Byrne of Leinster kicks a conversion during the Investec Champions Cup win over Harlequins at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Shauna Clinton\/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)\">Harry Byrne is set to start for Leinster against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road on Friday night in a major selection call from coach Leo Cullen and Jacques Nienaber.<\/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)\">Byrne is expected to replace Sam Prendergast at out-half after impressing off the bench in Leinster\u2019s round one victory over Harlequins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Byrne of Leinster kicks a conversion during the Investec Champions Cup win over Harlequins at the Aviva&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12861,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-226944","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-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115699628767918539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226944","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=226944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}