Munster have confirmed the signing of Ireland international tighthead prop Jack Aungier on a two-year deal starting next season.<\/p>\n
The powerful scrummager has made 100 appearances for Connacht since joining from Leinster in 2020 and earned a call up to the Ireland squad for the 2025 Six Nations before making his Test debut against Georgia last summer.<\/p>\n
With Munster set to lose veteran John Ryan to retirement at the end of the current campaign and Michael Ala’atoa expected to end his short-term contract, Aungier’s addition eases some pressure on the province’s potential tighthead stocks with Oli Jager and Roman Salanoa experiencing ongoing injury issues.<\/p>\n
Former Young Munster prop Conor Bartley will be joined in the senior ranks for next season by academy graduate Ronan Foxe.<\/p>\n
Aungier, 27, has also represented Ireland A and Emerging Ireland having risen through the ranks at Suttonians RFC and St Fintan’s High School before joining the Leinster academy in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited to be joining Munster Rugby next season,\u201d Aungier said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis squad has a brilliant blend of young talent and experienced leaders, and I can\u2019t wait to be part of it. I’m looking forward to getting started, contributing to the team, and making an impact on and off the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Munster general manager Ian Costello said: “We’re delighted to welcome Jack to Munster Rugby. He brings a wealth of experience, and his quality is reflected in his call up to the Ireland squad last summer.<\/p>\n
“He’s a powerful scrummager, dynamic ball carrier and has a range of skills which we think will add massive value to Munster Rugby.”<\/p>\n
Munster have also announced Scarlets and South Africa hooker Marnus van der Merwe as a new signing for Clayton McMillan next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster have confirmed the signing of Ireland international tighthead prop Jack Aungier on a two-year deal starting next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28454,61,60,11897,43],"class_list":["post-446859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-rugby","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446859","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=446859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}