However, the Limerick man told The 42<\/a> that he had now decided to call time on his playing days.<\/p>\n “I had left it open-ended,” Murray said.<\/p>\n “My body felt really good and in a good place.<\/p>\n “But it was more for a life experience for my wife Joanna and our little boy Alfie, who’s 10 months now, and just if we wanted to go somewhere nice and experience a nice place to live, for them as much as me wanting to play on.<\/p>\n “There were a couple of offers but nothing that really suited us at this time of our lives.<\/p>\n “There was one in Japan but dragging them there, putting them in an apartment in Tokyo or something like that just didn\u2019t appeal to where we\u2019re at at the minute.<\/p>\n “So long story short, nothing of appeal came up and I\u2019m very happy to hang up the boots properly and move into the next chapter.”<\/p>\n Murray won 133 international caps including eight for the British and Irish Lions.<\/p>\n He won the Six Nations five times.<\/p>\n He made his Munster debut in 2010 and won the URC with his home province in 2011 and 2023.<\/p>\n He added: “The buzz you get on a Saturday running out in whatever stadium it is, that won\u2019t be replaced, that\u2019ll be something I\u2019ll have to process and get used to.<\/p>\n “On the other hand, I got to do it for as long as I absolutely could.<\/p>\n “I got to 36 and I had plenty of days out in green and red and I consider myself very lucky.<\/p>\n “I\u2019ve seen a lot of lads have to retire through injury or not get their contract renewed or whatever it is.<\/p>\n “Fortunately for me, I got to go the distance and step away on my terms.”<\/p>\n Listen to the RT\u00c9 Rugby podcast on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n Watch Ireland v France in the Women’s Rugby World Cup quarter-final on Sunday from 12.30pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on rte.ie\/sport and the RT\u00c9 News app. Listen to live radio commentary on RT\u00c9 Radio. All other quarter-finals on RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ireland and Munster scrum-half Conor Murray has retired from rugby. The 36-year-old finished with Munster at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-16971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971","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=16971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/001fed47-614.jpg\"\/)
\nConor Murray (l) with Munster and Ireland team-mate Peter O’Mahony<\/p>\n