{"id":250358,"date":"2026-01-18T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250358\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:38:08","slug":"connacht-demolish-montauban-to-march-into-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250358\/","title":{"rendered":"Connacht demolish Montauban to march into last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connacht ran riot at the Dexcom Stadium to demolish Montauban 75-14 and seal a place in the last 16 of the Challenge Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The understrength French visitors were completely overwhelmed out west, shipping 11 tries on a chastening night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/rugby\/european-rugby-challenge-cup\/27241\/report-4867862\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FULL MATCH DETAILS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montauban actually started quite well, but once Paul Boyle galloped over in the eighth minute, the floodgates opened.<\/p>\n<p>Cian Prendergast added a second try with 19 minutes gone, and though Montauban responded almost immediately through Jean Seux, Sam Gilbert&#8217;s try and a penalty try ensured the bonus point was bagged before the half-hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>Ru-Hann Greyling had received a 20-minute red card for a hit on Cathal Forde by that stage, and Montauban were floundering.<\/p>\n<p>Harry West, Cian Prendergast, Matthew Devine and Boyle all crossed the line, with Gilbert&#8217;s trusty boot ensuring the hosts led 56-7 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>The scores kept coming on the turnaround, albeit the frequency with which they arrived slowed down.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Jansen, Shane Jennings and Dylan Tierney-Martin got in on the act, with Paul Valle getting Montauban&#8217;s second try of the night in the closing stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht ran riot at the Dexcom Stadium to demolish Montauban 75-14 and seal a place in the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-250358","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250358","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=250358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}