{"id":4628,"date":"2018-05-01T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2018-05-01T20:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:13:49","slug":"irish-senior-interprovincials-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/irish-senior-interprovincials-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Senior Interprovincials 2018 (Fitzwilliam, Dublin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Munster Senior Team played the 2018 Interpros in Dublin at the weekend.<\/h1>\n<h3>The team was as follows:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>John Hurley<\/strong> (Sunday&#8217;s Well &#8211; Captain), <strong>Nick Staunton<\/strong> (Qualified through grandparent from Tipperary), <strong>Karl McLoughney<\/strong> (Thurles). <strong>Sophie O&#8217;Rourke<\/strong> (Highfield), <strong>Paul O&#8217;Mahony<\/strong> (Highfield).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Munster had a tight 3-2 defeat to Ulster on the Friday night.<br \/>\nMunster were well beaten by an exceptionally strong Connacht side on Saturday morning with only Paul O&#8217;Mahony getting close to a win.<br \/>\nConnacht went on to win the event outright beating all of their opponents.<br \/>\nMunster had a good 3-2 win in the final round against Leinster on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The team performed very well over the weekend and it was great to see the younger players Paul, Sophie and Karl \u00a0gain some very valuable experience playing at this level.<br \/>\nCredit to John Hurley, Captain and current Munster Champion, for putting together the team and looking after the Munster side&#8217;s preparations.<\/p>\n<p>The event was well-run by Leinster Squash and the atmosphere in Fitzwilliam was superb, especially given the fact the Irish Open PSA was being held there on the same weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The following are the results from the weekend,<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Friday Night,<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Munster 2 V 3 Ulster<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>[table align=&#8221;center&#8221; width=&#8221;470&#8243; colwidth=&#8221;190|30|30|30|190&#8243;<br \/>\ncolalign=&#8221;left|center|center|center|right&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Munster,2,-,3,Ulster<\/p>\n<p>John Hurley,3,-,2,Peter McNeice<\/p>\n<p>Nick Staunton,3,-,0,David Ayerst<\/p>\n<p>Karl McLoughney,0,-,3,Alan Megaw<\/p>\n<p>Sophie O&#8217;Rourke,1,-,3,Adrian Leeson<\/p>\n<p>Paul O&#8217;Mahony,1,-,3,Mark Gilland<\/p>\n<p>[\/table]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Saturday Morning,<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Munster 0 V 5 Connacht<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>[table align=&#8221;center&#8221; width=&#8221;470&#8243; colwidth=&#8221;190|30|30|30|190&#8243;<br \/>\ncolalign=&#8221;left|center|center|center|right&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Munster,0,-,5,Connacht<\/p>\n<p>John Hurley,0,-,3,John Rooney<\/p>\n<p>Nick Staunton,0,-,3,David Noone<\/p>\n<p>Karl McLoughney,0,-,3,Niall Rooney<\/p>\n<p>Sophie O&#8217;Rourke,0,-,3,Rory Gilligan<\/p>\n<p>Paul O&#8217;Mahony,2,-,3,Niall Brennan<\/p>\n<p>[\/table]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Saturday Afternoon,<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Munster 3 V 2 Leinster<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>[table align=&#8221;center&#8221; width=&#8221;470&#8243; colwidth=&#8221;190|30|30|30|190&#8243;<br \/>\ncolalign=&#8221;left|center|center|center|right&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Munster,3,-,2,Leinster<\/p>\n<p>John Hurley,3,-,0,Dara O&#8217;Flynn<\/p>\n<p>Nick Staunton,3,-,0,Gavin L\u2019Estrange<\/p>\n<p>Karl McLoughney,0,-,3,Michael Creaven<\/p>\n<p>Sophie O&#8217;Rourke,0,-,3,Alex Smith<\/p>\n<p>Paul O&#8217;Mahony,3,-,0,John Dillon<\/p>\n<p>[\/table]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Munster Senior Team played the 2018 Interpros in Dublin at the weekend. The team was as follows: John Hurley (Sunday&#8217;s Well &#8211; Captain), Nick Staunton (Qualified through grandparent from Tipperary), Karl McLoughney (Thurles). Sophie O&#8217;Rourke (Highfield), Paul O&#8217;Mahony (Highfield).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-senior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munstersquash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}