{"id":250599,"date":"2026-01-18T04:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250599\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:22:10","slug":"munsters-champions-cup-campaign-ends-with-shock-defeat-to-castres-as-province-enters-challenge-cup-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250599\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster\u2019s Champions Cup campaign ends with shock defeat to Castres as province enters Challenge Cup last-16"},"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 29 Castres 31\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster captain Tadhg Beirne, third from left, and teammates during the Champions Cup defeat to Castres at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sports3322706.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)\">Munster captain Tadhg Beirne, third from left, and teammates during the Champions Cup defeat to Castres at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Seb Daly\/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 Champions Cup campaign is over, as Castres caused one of the biggest shocks Thomond Park has ever seen.<\/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)\">Clayton McMillan\u2019s charges will now enter the Challenge Cup round of 16 after Toulon\u2019s 31-14 victory at Gloucester tonight \u2013 a consolation prize after a chastening evening in Limerick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster 29 Castres 31 Munster captain Tadhg Beirne, third from left, and teammates during the Champions Cup defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13503,42,11897,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-250599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cian-tracey","tag-headlines","tag-munster-rugby","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\/250599","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=250599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}