{"id":162667,"date":"2025-11-27T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162667\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:12:09","slug":"returning-ireland-internationals-strengthen-munsters-hand-for-urc-clash-with-stormers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162667\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Ireland internationals strengthen Munster\u2019s hand for URC clash with Stormers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Craig Casey during a Munster open training session at Rockwell College in Rockwell, Tipperary. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3224070.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)\">Craig Casey during a Munster open training session at Rockwell College in Rockwell, Tipperary. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/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\u2019s returning internationals Tadhg Beirne, Craig Casey, Jack Crowley and Tom Farrell have come straight back into the starting team for Saturday evening\u2019s (5.30pm) top-of-the-table URC clash with the Stormers at Thomond Park.<\/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)\">Head coach Clayton McMillan has named a strong team that includes the fit-again Tom Ahern, while Edwin Edogbo is on the bench after recovering from a recent head injury, similar to Ahern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Casey during a Munster open training session at Rockwell College in Rockwell, Tipperary. Photo: Piaras \u00d3 M\u00eddheach\/Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13503,61,60,11897,43,14881],"class_list":["post-162667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-rugby","tag-news","tag-united-rugby-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}