{"id":454161,"date":"2026-04-26T03:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/454161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:48:14","slug":"theres-probably-two-or-three-season-enders-there-munster-and-ulster-left-to-count-the-cost-of-hugely-attritional-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/454161\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There&#8217;s probably two or three season-enders there\u2019 \u2013 Munster and Ulster left to count the cost of hugely attritional derby"},"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\">Injuries take the gloss off a convincing Munster win\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster head coach Clayton McMillan before the United Rugby Championship match between Munster and Ulster at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d840fa0e-b331-4c85-bf63-2666264e108f.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 head coach Clayton McMillan before the United Rugby Championship match between Munster and Ulster at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo by 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 and Ulster were left to count the cost of tonight\u2019s bruising interpro derby at Thomond Park, where the hosts ran out comfortable 41-14 winners.<\/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)\">Having already lost Jack Crowley during the warm-up, Munster then saw captain Tadhg Beirne, second-row John Kleyn, winger Calvin Nash, centre Tom Farrell and tighthead prop Oli Jager all forced off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injuries take the gloss off a convincing Munster win Munster head coach Clayton McMillan before the United Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[39921,18,19,17,73724,12311,132,80610,23200],"class_list":{"0":"post-454161","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-jack-crowley","13":"tag-munster-rugby","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tadhg-beirne","16":"tag-ulster-rugby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116468967916160710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454161","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=454161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}