{"id":198848,"date":"2025-12-18T19:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198848\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:36:08","slug":"munster-rugby-team-news-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198848\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster Rugby | Team News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Munster \u2018A\u2019 side has been named for Friday\u2019s Interprovincial Series clash against Leinster A at the Rockwell College 4G pitch (1.30pm, live on Access Munster).<\/p>\n<p>All three of Munster A\u2019s home games in the Interprovincial Series will be live-streamed on Access Munster, subscribe for just \u20ac4 per month <a href=\"https:\/\/accessmunster.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s game is Munster A\u2019s second game of the competition after they came from 26-0 down to earn a thrilling 26-all draw with Leinster A when the sides met at Old Belvedere in October.<\/p>\n<p>Evan O\u2019Connell captains the side with 12 Academy and nine senior players included in the 25-man squad.<\/p>\n<p>Garryowen pair Rory Woods and Billy Hayes are included among the replacements along with Shannon\u2019s Alex Lautsou and Young Munster\u2019s John Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Shay McCarthy, Diarmuid Kilgallen and Fionn Gibbons start in the back three with Eoghan Smyth and Se\u00e1n O\u2019Brien forming the centre partnership. Jake O\u2019Riordan and Tony Butler start in the half-backs.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Wycherley, Max Clein and Ronan Foxe pack down in the front row with Michael Foy and O\u2019Connell in the engine room.<\/p>\n<p>Se\u00e1n Edogbo, Ruadh\u00e1n Quinn and Luke Murphy start in the back row.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Sheahan, George Hadden and Kieran Ryan provide the front row back-up with Woods, Lautsou and Hayes completing the forward cover.<\/p>\n<p>Poland, Tom Wood, Gene O\u2019Leary Kareem and Dylan Hicks are the backline replacements.<\/p>\n<p>Munster A: Shay McCarthy (Young Munster); Diarmuid Kilgallen (Garryowen), Se\u00e1n O\u2019Brien (Nenagh Ormond), Eoghan Smyth (Cork Constitution), Fionn Gibbons (Young Munster); Tony Butler (Young Munster), Jake O\u2019Riordan (Young Munster); Josh Wycherley (Young Munster), Max Clein (Garryowen), Ronan Foxe (Garryowen); Michael Foy (Cork Constitution), Evan O\u2019Connell (Young Munster) (C); Se\u00e1n Edogbo (UCC), Ruadh\u00e1n Quinn (Young Munster), Luke Murphy (Young Munster).<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Danny Sheahan (Cork Constitution), George Hadden (Garryowen), Kieran Ryan (Young Munster), Rory Woods (Garryowen), Alex Lautsou (Shannon), Billy Hayes (Garryowen), John Poland (Young Munster), Tom Wood (Garryowen), Gene O\u2019Leary Kareem (UCC), Dylan Hicks (Cork Constitution).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Munster \u2018A\u2019 side has been named for Friday\u2019s Interprovincial Series clash against Leinster A at the Rockwell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-198848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198848","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=198848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}