{"id":274489,"date":"2026-01-31T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274489\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:22:10","slug":"penny-grabs-hat-trick-as-leinster-extend-winning-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274489\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny grabs hat-trick as Leinster extend winning run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Penny ran in three tries as Leinster secured a 28-20 United Rugby Championship bonus-point victory over Edinburgh at the Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>It is the 11th straight victory across all competitions for Leo Cullen&#8217;s side, who sit second with 39 points, five shy of table-topping Glasgow Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh were hoping to secure a first victory over Leinster since March 2019, but it was the hosts who struck first when Max Deegan touched down for an opening 13th-minute try, successfully converted by Charlie Tector.<\/p>\n<p>Duhan van der Merwe and Malelili Satala struck back with tries for Edinburgh, but Ross Thompson, who had earlier missed a penalty, could not convert the first try, though added a 23rd-minute penalty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/rugby\/united-rugby-championship\/26622\/report-4792565\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL MATCH DETAILS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Penny then scored his hat-trick in the 44th, 68th and 74th minutes, Tector booting the extras on all three.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Shiel crossed the whitewash to draw Edinburgh closer with a last-gasp try, Cammy Scott missing the conversion as Edinburgh ran out of time to stage a comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Penny ran in three tries as Leinster secured a 28-20 United Rugby Championship bonus-point victory over Edinburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-274489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274489","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=274489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}