{"id":379819,"date":"2025-12-30T06:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379819\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T06:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:22:07","slug":"leinster-and-munsters-battle-for-rugbys-soul-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379819\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster and Munster\u2019s battle for rugby\u2019s soul \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The Christmas interpros have been and gone, Leinster and Ulster prevailing over Munster and Connacht respectively. Thomond Park was notable not so much for the quality of rugby but barbs which came off the pitch post-match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Leo Cullen and Simon Zebo were more than happy to jest with each other, while Tadhg Beirne added his name to the long list of players lamenting the game\u2019s tactical direction of travel as teams such as Leinster continue to spurn attacking rugby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Meanwhile, Ulster showed their continuing ability to entertain while Connacht remain mired in a slump. Gordon D\u2019Arcy joins Nathan Johns to discuss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Produced by John Casey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Christmas interpros have been and gone, Leinster and Ulster prevailing over Munster and Connacht respectively. Thomond Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,204509,176955,204510,177721,760,85,145502,176639],"class_list":{"0":"post-379819","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-connacht-rugby","11":"tag-leinster-rugby","12":"tag-leo-cullen","13":"tag-munster-rugby","14":"tag-rugby","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tadhg-beirne","17":"tag-ulster-rugby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379819","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=379819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}