{"id":400378,"date":"2026-04-15T20:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400378\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:52:11","slug":"munster-facing-bitter-fallout-over-roger-randle-appointment-after-rape-accusations-resurface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400378\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster facing bitter fallout over Roger Randle appointment after rape accusations resurface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Newly-appointed Munster attack coach Roger Randle. Photo: Michael Bradley\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages_1307316871.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)\">Newly-appointed Munster attack coach Roger Randle. Photo: Michael Bradley\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor and Cian Tracey<\/p>\n<p>Today at 21:20<\/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 Rugby have taken a huge reputational risk by appointing former All Black Roger Randle as their new attack coach.<\/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)\">Already there has been internal resistance to the decision to hire the New Zealander to replace Mike Prendergast next season, while there has been considerable online comment around his past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly-appointed Munster attack coach Roger Randle. Photo: Michael Bradley\/Getty R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor and Cian Tracey Today at 21:20 Munster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,11896,61,60,11897,16766,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-400378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-clayton-mcmillan","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-munster-rugby","13":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400378","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=400378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}