{"id":381124,"date":"2026-04-04T05:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381124\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:17:11","slug":"cathal-forde-drives-connacht-revival-as-they-surge-into-challenge-cup-last-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381124\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathal Forde drives Connacht revival as they surge into Challenge Cup last eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Challenge Cup: Connacht 29 Sharks 12\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Connacht's Cathal Forde scores his side's fourth try despite the tackle of Hakeem Kunene Photo: Brendan Moran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/859f5516-cb5d-424b-9d53-8c1e6b2dd682.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)\">Connacht&#8217;s Cathal Forde scores his side&#8217;s fourth try despite the tackle of Hakeem Kunene Photo: Brendan Moran<\/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)\">Cathal Forde, who crossed for two tries, said Connacht laid the foundation for victory in the opening half when they soaked up enormous pressure.<\/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)\">Connacht trailed by five points at the break but took control when they had the elements in their favour after the restart and Forde made the pressure count with his first tries of the season .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Challenge Cup: Connacht 29 Sharks 12 Connacht&#8217;s Cathal Forde scores his side&#8217;s fourth try despite the tackle of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28454,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-381124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-connacht-rugby","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381124","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=381124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}