{"id":289902,"date":"2026-01-17T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289902\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:09:12","slug":"munsters-champions-cup-campaign-ends-with-shock-defeat-to-castres-as-province-enters-challenge-cup-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289902\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster\u2019s Champions Cup campaign ends with shock defeat to Castres as province enters Challenge Cup last-16"},"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 29 Castres 31\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster captain Tadhg Beirne, third from left, and teammates during the Champions Cup defeat to Castres at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sports3322706.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)\">Munster captain Tadhg Beirne, third from left, and teammates during the Champions Cup defeat to Castres at Thomond Park in Limerick. 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)\">Munster\u2019s Champions Cup campaign is over, as Castres caused one of the biggest shocks Thomond Park has ever seen.<\/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)\">Clayton McMillan\u2019s charges will now enter the Challenge Cup round of 16 after Toulon\u2019s 31-14 victory at Gloucester tonight \u2013 a consolation prize after a chastening evening in Limerick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster 29 Castres 31 Munster captain Tadhg Beirne, third from left, and teammates during the Champions Cup defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[39921,18,19,17,12311,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-289902","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-ireland","12":"tag-munster-rugby","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115912727800951955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289902","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=289902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}