{"id":419889,"date":"2026-04-27T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419889\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:48:11","slug":"cian-tracey-victory-but-at-what-price-munster-left-to-count-the-casualties-after-ulster-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419889\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Victory, but at what price? Munster left to count the casualties after Ulster success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster's John Hodnett scores his side's sixth try during their URC victory over Ulster at Thomond Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/65fe2615-bcff-47d1-9f89-9da707b0beeb.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&#8217;s John Hodnett scores his side&#8217;s sixth try during their URC victory over Ulster at Thomond Park. Photo: Seb Daly\/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)\">Shortly after the full-time whistle sounded at Thomond Park on Saturday night, the Munster and Ulster players embraced in a colourful scene that was more akin to an A&amp;E department.<\/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)\">Two players \u2013 Calvin Nash and Ben Carson \u2013 stood by the tunnel, on crutches, staring blankly ahead, resigned to their fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster&#8217;s John Hodnett scores his side&#8217;s sixth try during their URC victory over Ulster at Thomond Park. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,61,60,11897,112,31398],"class_list":["post-419889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cian-tracey","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\/419889","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=419889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}