{"id":166856,"date":"2025-11-30T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166856\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:24:09","slug":"sean-naughton-is-connachts-kicking-king-in-convincing-urc-win-over-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166856\/","title":{"rendered":"Se\u00e1n Naughton is Connacht\u2019s kicking king in convincing URC win over Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Connacht 44 Sharks 17\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hugh Gavin of Connacht, left, celebrates with teammates after scoring their side's third try during the United Rugby Championship win over Sharks at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3302026.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)\">Hugh Gavin of Connacht, left, celebrates with teammates after scoring their side&#8217;s third try during the United Rugby Championship win over Sharks at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo: Tyler Miller\/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)\">Promising full-back Se\u00e1n Naughton landed eight kicks from eight as Connacht secured only their second win of the season in a bonus-point victory at Dexcom Stadium.<\/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)\">And in the process Connacht showed that an Irish side can master a South African one in the scrum, with the solid set-piece of the pack providing the foundation for this invaluable URC win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht 44 Sharks 17 Hugh Gavin of Connacht, left, celebrates with teammates after scoring their side&#8217;s third try&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28454,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-166856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166856","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=166856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}