{"id":251694,"date":"2026-01-18T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251694\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:39:10","slug":"leinster-face-edinburgh-in-champions-cup-round-of-16-as-munster-ulster-and-connacht-learn-challenge-cup-fates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251694\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster face Edinburgh in Champions Cup round of 16 as Munster, Ulster and Connacht learn Challenge Cup fates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Boyle of Leinster is tackled by Baptiste Heguy of Aviron Bayonnais during the Champions Cup match at the Stade Jean Dauger in Bayonne, France. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sports3322424.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)\">Jack Boyle of Leinster is tackled by Baptiste Heguy of Aviron Bayonnais during the Champions Cup match at the Stade Jean Dauger in Bayonne, France. 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 will face Edinburgh at home in the Champions Cup round of 16 on Easter weekend after finishing as the third seeds at the end of the pool stages.<\/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)\">Leo Cullen\u2019s men are the last Irish team standing in the tournament after Munster\u2019s exit, with seven English sides, four French, two South African and two Scottish sides remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Jack Boyle of Leinster is tackled by Baptiste Heguy of Aviron Bayonnais during the Champions Cup match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28454,61,60,11287,11897,112,31398],"class_list":["post-251694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-munster-rugby","tag-sports","tag-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251694","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=251694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}