{"id":322607,"date":"2026-02-28T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322607\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:51:09","slug":"late-tries-put-gloss-on-munster-win-over-zebre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322607\/","title":{"rendered":"Late tries put gloss on Munster win over Zebre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Munster ran in three tries to seal a 21-7 victory over bottom-of-the-table Zebre at a drenched Thomond Park.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors were in trouble early after Giulio Bertaccini was sent to the sin-bin in the third minute.<\/p>\n<p>Munster took full advantage, taking the lead when left wing Shane Daly dotted down in the left corner in the seventh minute and JJ Hanrahan added the extras.<\/p>\n<p>Munster held Zebre to just Bautista Stavile&#8217;s 32nd-minute try, converted by Giacomo da Re.<\/p>\n<p>However, Munster struggled to add to their tally until second-half substitute Alex Kendellen marked his return from injury with a 65th-minute try and Lee Barron added another seven minutes later, Hanrahan converting both.<\/p>\n<p>Munster remain in fourth place with 39 points, one shy of third-placed Cardiff and five behind leaders Glasgow Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster ran in three tries to seal a 21-7 victory over bottom-of-the-table Zebre at a drenched Thomond Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-322607","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\/322607","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=322607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}