{"id":213783,"date":"2025-12-28T04:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/213783\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:17:11","slug":"leinster-claim-derby-revenge-on-munster-with-battling-urc-win-at-thomond-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/213783\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster claim derby revenge on Munster with battling URC win at Thomond Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Munster 8 Leinster 13\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Lowe of Leinster offloads to teammate Rieko Ioane, right, as he is tackled by Shane Daly, left, and Mike Haley of Munster in the URC match at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sports3313940.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)\">James Lowe of Leinster offloads to teammate Rieko Ioane, right, as he is tackled by Shane Daly, left, and Mike Haley of Munster in the URC match at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">There was spite, there was niggle, and as Munster head coach Clayton McMillan had predicted earlier in the week, there was plenty of venom.<\/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)\">Unfortunately, the frustrating stop\/start nature of the contest didn\u2019t lend itself to a free-flowing Christmas cracker, but there was a hugely absorbing element to this interpro slugfest that meant you couldn\u2019t take your eyes off it for a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster 8 Leinster 13 James Lowe of Leinster offloads to teammate Rieko Ioane, right, as he is tackled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13503,42,11287,11897,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-213783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-leinster-rugby","11":"tag-munster-rugby","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213783","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=213783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}