{"id":370667,"date":"2026-03-29T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:41:14","slug":"that-was-for-them-craig-casey-dedicates-munster-response-to-staff-and-families-after-difficult-days-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370667\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That was for them\u2019 \u2013 Craig Casey dedicates Munster response to staff and families after difficult days in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster captain Craig Casey warms up ahead of the United Rugby Championship match against Bulls at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo: Nic Bothma\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3407649.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 Craig Casey warms up ahead of the United Rugby Championship match against Bulls at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo: Nic Bothma\/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 captain Craig Casey said they had no choice but to produce a response against the Bulls after last weekend\u2019s 45-0 hammering by the Sharks was followed by the midweek disclosure that the province is seeking voluntary redundancies among the general staff in the organisation.<\/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)\">And while Munster went down 34-31 in Pretoria, Casey said the battling qualities shown in garnering two bonus points were a decent response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster captain Craig Casey warms up ahead of the United Rugby Championship match against Bulls at Loftus Versfeld&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11897,112],"class_list":["post-370667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370667","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=370667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}