{"id":18631,"date":"2025-09-13T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/18631\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:13:11","slug":"it-was-a-frustration-i-needed-to-voice-it-retiring-conor-murray-backs-up-withering-critique-of-munster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/18631\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was a frustration. I needed to voice it\u2019 \u2013retiring Conor Murray backs up withering critique of Munster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Conor Murray spoke to the Irish Independent's R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O'Connor for the Indo Sport Rugby podcast\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1d4cce30-5599-4401-a585-270befdf97ae.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)\">Conor Murray spoke to the Irish Independent&#8217;s R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O&#8217;Connor for the Indo Sport Rugby podcast<\/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)\">Conor Murray has confirmed that he has retired from rugby, bringing a glittering career to an end.<\/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)\">The legendary former Munster and Ireland scrum-half had kept his options open since announcing the end of his career with club and country, but has opted not to take up an opportunity in Japan and has hung up his boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Murray spoke to the Irish Independent&#8217;s R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O&#8217;Connor for the Indo Sport Rugby podcast Conor Murray has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13919,61,60,11897,16766,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-18631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-murray","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-munster-rugby","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631","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=18631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}