{"id":244746,"date":"2026-01-14T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244746\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:38:11","slug":"ulster-eye-ireland-prop-as-part-of-double-connacht-swoop-but-face-competition-from-other-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244746\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster eye Ireland prop as part of double Connacht swoop but face competition from other province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland prop Jack Aungier is a target for Ulster\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2128459.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland prop Jack Aungier is a target for Ulster<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ulster have set their sights on a summer swoop for Ireland forward Jack Aungier, Belfast Telegraph Sport understands, however they will face stiff competition from Munster for the tighthead prop\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Aungier, 27, is out of contract at the end of the season and is understood to be leaning towards a move away from Galway where he has largely played back-up to fellow Ireland star Finlay Bealham, with both Ulster and Munster vying for his services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland prop Jack Aungier is a target for Ulster Ulster have set their sights on a summer swoop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28454,61,60,11897,43,31398,14881],"class_list":["post-244746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-rugby","tag-news","tag-ulster-rugby","tag-united-rugby-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244746","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=244746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}