{"id":314103,"date":"2026-02-24T04:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314103\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:11:11","slug":"munster-rugby-squad-update-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314103\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster Rugby | Squad Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Munster squad are preparing at the HPC ahead of Sturday\u2019s URC Round 12 clash against Zebre at Thomond Park.<\/p>\n<p>The game kicks off at 5.30pm with tickets available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ie\/event\/180062E9B7943888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the international front, Edwin Edogbo, Tom Farrell and Michael Milne have all returned to squad training at the HPC from Ireland camp ahead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Tadhg Beirne, Craig Casey, Jack Crowley and Jeremy Loughman all played their part in Saturday\u2019s record win for Ireland at Twickenham.<\/p>\n<p>On the injury front, there is good news for Alex Kendellen (ankle), Jean Kleyn (head), Calvin Nash (shoulder) and JJ Hanrahan (hamstring) as they all return to training this week.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Ahern is increasing his training load and a decision on his availability will be made later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>John Hodnett (hamstring), Oli Jager (foot), Conor Bartley (neck), Alex Nankivell (foot) and Evan O\u2019Connell (shoulder) are unavailable this week.<\/p>\n<p>In player news, fomer New Zealand U20 international scrum-half Ben O\u2019Donovan has joined the squad from Canterbury on an 18-month deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old lined out at the 2024 U20s World Championship having come up through the ranks at Linwood Rugby Club in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, February 28<\/p>\n<p>URC Round 12: Munster Rugby v Zebre Rugby, Thomond Park, 5.30pm;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ie\/event\/180062E9B7943888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buy tickets here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, April 25<\/p>\n<p>URC Round 16: Munster Rugby v Ulster Rugby, Thomond Park, 5.30pm;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ie\/united-rugby-championship-munster-rugby-v-limerick-city-25-04-2026\/event\/180062E2B1D99157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buy tickets here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 16<\/p>\n<p>URC Round 18: Munster Rugby v Emirates Lions, Thomond Park, 7.45pm;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ie\/event\/180062E99F4D2465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buy tickets here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Munster squad are preparing at the HPC ahead of Sturday\u2019s URC Round 12 clash against Zebre at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-314103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314103","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=314103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}