{"id":398139,"date":"2026-04-14T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398139\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:41:08","slug":"munster-rugby-squad-update-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398139\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster Rugby | Squad Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Munster squad are continuing preparations at the HPC ahead of Saturday\u2019s URC Round 15 clash against Benetton at Stadio Monigo (7.45pm Irish time, live on TG4 &amp; Premier Sports).<\/p>\n<p>On the injury front, Diarmuid Barron, Brian Gleeson and Calvin Nash have all completed the return-to-play protocols and returned to training.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a positive update on Oli Jager (foot), Conor Bartley (neck) and Jean Kleyn (ankle) as they all return to training this week.<\/p>\n<p>On the club front, there have been 291 appearances for senior and Academy players so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>There were 12 Munster players in AIL action for the final round of regular season fixtures the weekend before last.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Sheahan scored a hat-trick for Cork Constitution with Michael Foy and Dylan Hicks also featuring in their win over Lansdowne at Temple Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Smith was a try-scorer for Young Munster in their victory over Ballynahinch with Fionn Gibbons and Jake O\u2019Riordan also in action for the Cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Conor Kennelly started for Highfield in their loss away to Queen\u2019s University.<\/p>\n<p>Gene O\u2019Leary Kareem, Conor Ryan and Se\u00e1n Edogbo all started for UCC in their win over Garryowen at the Mardyke.<\/p>\n<p>Emmet Calvey and Ois\u00edn Minogue started for Shannon as they won away at Cashel.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets<\/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 continuing preparations at the HPC ahead of Saturday\u2019s URC Round 15 clash against Benetton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-398139","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\/398139","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=398139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}