{"id":229253,"date":"2025-10-21T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229253\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:57:08","slug":"ireland-brush-off-any-leinster-munster-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229253\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland brush off any Leinster-Munster tension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is \u201cgreat harmony\u201d in the Ireland<\/a> camp despite a fractious clash between Leinster<\/a> and Munster<\/a> at the weekend, according to assistant coach John Fogarty.<\/p>\n

Leinster have dominated the rivalry but Munster won Saturday\u2019s United Rugby Championship<\/a> encounter, which featured several bouts of pushing and shoving and multiple injuries, 31-14.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a press conference in Dublin, Fogarty said: \u201cThere was a good laugh among the players. The Leinster players will be disappointed, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou come into Irish camp, you start to get your head around the fixtures. (Head coach) Andy (Farrell) had a chat this morning, the page has turned unbelievably fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a great harmony among the players in camp. They\u2019re good friends, they\u2019re good mates and you don\u2019t want to lose to your friends. That rivalry is alive and well, and long may it continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good for Irish rugby. All the provinces are performing well. There is no issue here with us, we\u2019re excited to get into a green jersey, get on a plane tomorrow and start to dream big about this November and whatever\u2019s after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The contest proved costly for Munster pair Edwin Edogbo<\/a> (concussion) and Brian Gleeson<\/a> (elbow), who have both been ruled out of the trip to face New Zealand<\/a> in Chicago on November 1.<\/p>\n

Farrell has, though, added uncapped Munster centre Tom Farrell and Leinster back Jimmy O\u2019Brien to his squad for the All Blacks<\/a> encounter and Quilter Nations Series.<\/p>\n

Connacht<\/a> wing Mack Hansen<\/a> has also been ruled out after suffering an aggravation to a foot injury late in Connacht\u2019s loss to the Bulls.<\/p>\n

Bundee Aki (hip) and Robbie Henshaw<\/a> (groin) will travel to Illinois with the squad on Tuesday but will continue to be assessed.<\/p>\n

The Chicago encounter is a rematch of Ireland\u2019s historic 2016 meeting with New Zealand in the same city where they recorded a first victory over the All Blacks after 111 years of trying.<\/p>\n

Fogarty said of Hansen: \u201cHe\u2019ll be very disappointed. It\u2019s a huge November and a huge opportunity to play against the best in the world so any player that\u2019s not going to make it is going to be disappointed. And so are we, we think he\u2019s a world-class player.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting, the guys coming in, Tom Farrell and Jimmy. I\u2019m taking some credit for Tom, I coached him at Under-20s with Leinster. I told him I was trying to get him in for a long time now so I\u2019m glad he\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is \u201cgreat harmony\u201d in the Ireland camp despite a fractious clash between Leinster and Munster at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-229253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}