{"id":202262,"date":"2025-12-20T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202262\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:25:09","slug":"cian-tracey-leinster-find-themselves-stuck-in-a-vicious-jekyll-and-hyde-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202262\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Leinster find themselves stuck in a vicious Jekyll and Hyde cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster's Joe McCarthy, left, and brother Paddy McCarthy during last Friday night's URC encounter with Ulster at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4665e4e2-6205-454c-bafd-55998dd89145.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)\">Leinster&#8217;s Joe McCarthy, left, and brother Paddy McCarthy during last Friday night&#8217;s URC encounter with Ulster at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">Leinster\u2019s Jekyll and Hyde season is best encapsulated by their erratic performances in each half of their previous two games.<\/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)\">In Welford Road last week, despite dominating territory and possession, Leinster trailed Leicester Tigers 15-6 at half-time before a big impact from their bench, led by try-scoring hooker Dan Sheehan saw them overturn the nine-point deficit and run out 23-15 winners in the Champions Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster&#8217;s Joe McCarthy, left, and brother Paddy McCarthy during last Friday night&#8217;s URC encounter with Ulster at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13503,42,11287,43,40,38,41,39,31398,14881],"class_list":["post-202262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cian-tracey","tag-headlines","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ulster-rugby","tag-united-rugby-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202262","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=202262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}