{"id":388516,"date":"2026-04-08T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388516\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:41:12","slug":"failings-laid-bare-as-euro-exit-deepens-munster-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388516\/","title":{"rendered":"Failings laid bare as Euro exit deepens Munster pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> It\u2019s now official. Munster rugby is in crisis mode.  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/rugby\/arid-41822174.html\">Saturday\u2019s defeat to Exeter<\/a>, their 10th in the last 14 games, not only sees Munster as the first Irish province to exit Champions\/Challenge Cup rugby this season, but it places even further pressure on the side to finish in the top eight of the URC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For an organisation already looking to direct a handful of staff towards the exit door, a failure to qualify for next season\u2019s Champions Cup would be catastrophic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4976285_1_org_Irish_Examiner_modal.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \tUnlimited access starts here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">Try from only  \u20ac0.25 a day.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel anytime<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s now official. Munster rugby is in crisis mode. Saturday\u2019s defeat to Exeter, their 10th in the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11897,112],"class_list":["post-388516","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\/388516","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=388516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}