{"id":410605,"date":"2026-04-21T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:48:09","slug":"i-was-very-disappointed-mike-prendergast-opens-up-on-his-decision-to-leave-munster-after-missing-out-on-top-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410605\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was very disappointed\u2019 \u2013 Mike Prendergast opens up on his decision to leave Munster after missing out on top job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster attack coach MIke Prendergast has talked openly and honestly about his decision to leave the province at the end of the season\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3226731.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 attack coach MIke Prendergast has talked openly and honestly about his decision to leave the province at the end of the season<\/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)\">Mike Prendergast insists he has not been put off his ultimate goal of becoming a head coach, despite being overlooked for the Munster top job in favour of Clayton McMillan.<\/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)\">Prendergast will depart Munster at the end of the season, and while his move to Bath hasn\u2019t yet been announced publicly, the Limerick native is set to further his experience in England under former Munster boss Johann van Graan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster attack coach MIke Prendergast has talked openly and honestly about his decision to leave the province at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,11896,61,60,11897,112],"class_list":["post-410605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cian-tracey","tag-clayton-mcmillan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410605","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=410605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}