{"id":190955,"date":"2025-12-14T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/190955\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:41:09","slug":"connacht-power-to-victory-in-challenge-cup-rout-against-black-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/190955\/","title":{"rendered":"Connacht power to victory in Challenge Cup rout against Black Lion"},"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 52 Black Lion 0\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shayne Bolton of Connacht is tackled by Demi Tapladze, left, and Akaki Tabutsadze of Black Lion during the EPCR Challenge Cup match at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo by Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6390a480-1b38-49fd-8b8b-70e9f0cda67b.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)\">Shayne Bolton of Connacht is tackled by Demi Tapladze, left, and Akaki Tabutsadze of Black Lion during the EPCR Challenge Cup match at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo by 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)\">Connacht ran in eight tries to get their Challenge Cup campaign back on track with an emphatic victory at Dexcom Stadium in Galway.<\/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)\">Connacht, having blown a 21-0 defeat away to Ospreys on the opening weekend, got the job done by half-time this time with six tries helping them build a 38-0 interval lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht 52 Black Lion 0 Shayne Bolton of Connacht is tackled by Demi Tapladze, left, and Akaki Tabutsadze&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-190955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190955","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=190955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}