{"id":410280,"date":"2026-04-21T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410280\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:32:09","slug":"decimated-ulster-add-six-players-to-injury-list-ahead-of-crucial-derby-clash-with-munster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410280\/","title":{"rendered":"Decimated Ulster add six players to injury list ahead of crucial derby clash with Munster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Angus Bell is carted off in the opening minutes of last weekend's defeat to Leinster. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a661f181-8930-4ab8-9041-3ef4f8d53967.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)\">Angus Bell is carted off in the opening minutes of last weekend&#8217;s defeat to Leinster. Photo: 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)\">Ulster are dealing with a growing injury list ahead of their interprovincial derby with Munster at Thomond Park on Saturday.<\/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)\">Some are unsurprising, such as loosehead prop Angus Bell, who was carted off with a foot injury inside the opening six minutes of last week\u2019s loss to Leinster, and centre James Hume, who also retired with a neck problem just four minutes later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angus Bell is carted off in the opening minutes of last weekend&#8217;s defeat to Leinster. Photo: Sportsfile Ulster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11897,112,31398],"class_list":["post-410280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-rugby","tag-sports","tag-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410280","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=410280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}