{"id":337321,"date":"2025-12-09T14:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337321\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:28:30","slug":"craig-casey-ireland-scrum-half-signs-two-year-contract-extension-at-munster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337321\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Casey: Ireland scrum-half signs two-year contract extension at Munster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland scrum-half Craig Casey has signed a two-year contract extension at Munster to remain with the province until at least 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old has made 104 appearances for Munster since his debut in 2019, scoring 22 tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Casey was part of the Munster side that won the United Rugby Championship in 2023, featuring 18 times across the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He captained Munster for the first time in their 34-21 win over Scarlets in the URC in September and has scored two tries in three appearances for Clayton McMillan&#8217;s side this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-capped Ireland international won the Grand Slam with Andy Farrell&#8217;s side in 2023 and the Six Nations title in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He captained Ireland for the first time on the 2025 summer tour and led the side to victories over Georgia and Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland scrum-half Craig Casey has signed a two-year contract extension at Munster to remain with the province until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-337321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337321","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=337321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}