{"id":66668,"date":"2025-09-16T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66668\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:05:10","slug":"pictures-munster-rugbys-annual-awards-held-at-the-limerick-strand-hotel-page-1-of-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66668\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTURES: Munster Rugby&#8217;s Annual Awards held at the Limerick Strand Hotel &#8211; Page 1 of 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOM FARRELL was announced on Saturday night as the Bank of Ireland Men\u2019s Player of the Year at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/245\/sport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Munster Rugby<\/a> Awards, presented by Virgin Media, held at the Limerick Strand Hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/treaty-utd\/1894588\/limerick-talent-stars-in-ireland-u17s-triumph-at-international-tournament-in-italy.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/treaty-utd\/1894588\/limerick-talent-stars-in-ireland-u17s-triumph-at-international-tournament-in-italy.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Limerick talent stars in Ireland U17s triumph at international tournament in Italy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12 awards were presented to worthy recipients involved in professional and domestic rugby in Munster.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell enjoyed an outstanding debut season for Munster as he showed incredible durability and consistency throughout the campaign where he played in every competitive fixture for Munster for a total of 26 matches, scoring 11 tries.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Pearse, who is the Bank of Ireland Women\u2019s Player of the Year, had another excellent season as she captained Munster to an Interpro final at the beginning of last season. <\/p>\n<p>The back-row also produced some brilliant performances for her club as she led UL Bohemian RFC to a second successive Women&#8217;s All Ireland League title.<\/p>\n<p>The Virgin Media Supporters\u2019 Players of the Year awards were won by Tom Farrell and Caitr\u00edona Finn.<\/p>\n<p>Full-back Ben O&#8217;Connor was named the John McCarthy Academy Player of the Year while the Breakthrough Women\u2019s Player of the Year went to Caitr\u00edona Finn.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Munster Senior Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s squads and management were in attendance, joining domestic game volunteers in recognising and honouring rugby achievements across the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOM FARRELL was announced on Saturday night as the Bank of Ireland Men\u2019s Player of the Year at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,40691,12311,132,46732,33653],"class_list":{"0":"post-66668","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-irfu","12":"tag-munster-rugby","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-thomond-park","15":"tag-virgin-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66668","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=66668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}