{"id":254719,"date":"2026-01-20T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254719\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:45:08","slug":"ireland-hopeful-gleeson-signs-new-deal-with-munster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254719\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland hopeful Gleeson signs new deal with Munster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Munster Rugby and the IRFU have announced a two-year contract extension for Brian Gleeson that will keep him at the province until at least 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old back-row forward, who won a Grand Slam with Ireland Under-20s in 2023, has scored two tries in 26 appearances for Munster after coming up through the ranks at Thurles RFC, Rockwell College and Garryowen FC.<\/p>\n<p>He made his Munster debut against the Sharks in the opening game of the 2023\/24 season.<\/p>\n<p>Gleeson was called up by Andy Farrell for the Ireland senior squad last October but missed out due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell will name his squad for the Six Nations tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster Rugby and the IRFU have announced a two-year contract extension for Brian Gleeson that will keep him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-254719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254719","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=254719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}