{"id":433474,"date":"2026-05-05T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:19:10","slug":"munster-rugby-squad-update-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433474\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster Rugby | Squad Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Munster squad are continuing preparations at the HPC ahead of Saturday\u2019s URC Round 17 clash against Connacht at Dexcom Stadium (7.45pm, live on TG4 &amp; Premier Sports).<\/p>\n<p>Munster A will also be in action on Friday as they take on Connacht Eagles at Ennis RFC with a 2pm kick-off for their final game of the Interprovincial Series. The game will be live-streamed on Access Munster. Sign up for just \u20ac4 <a href=\"https:\/\/accessmunster.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Munster A beat Connacht Eagles 57-19 last week and have drawn with Leinster twice and beaten Ulster at home. Their only defeat of the campaign so far was the away fixture against Ulster.<\/p>\n<p>On the injury front ahead of Saturday\u2019s URC clash, there is good news for Fineen Wycherley (knee) as he returns to training this week.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Crowley (leg) was a late withdrawal from the Ulster game but is available for selection this week.<\/p>\n<p>Tadhg Beirne (knee), Tom Farrell (shoulder), Oli Jager (head), Jean Kleyn (biceps) and Calvin Nash (hamstring) are all unavailable this week after being replaced during the win over Ulster.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Salanoa played 20 minutes as a replacement for Munster A in Friday\u2019s win over Connacht Eagles in Galway and moved a step closer to first team action.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets<\/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 17 clash against Connacht&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-433474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433474","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=433474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}