{"id":382510,"date":"2026-04-05T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382510\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:52:11","slug":"ulster-win-a-thriller-against-ospreys-to-set-up-challenge-cup-clash-against-ronan-ogaras-la-rochelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382510\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster win a thriller against Ospreys to set up Challenge Cup clash against Ronan O\u2019Gara\u2019s La Rochelle"},"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\">Ulster 28 Ospreys 24\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland , United Kingdom - 4 April 2026; Stuart McCloskey of Ulster is tackled by Sam Parry, left, and Dan Edwards of Ospreys during the EPCR Challenge Cup match between Ulster and Ospreys at Affidea Stadium in Belfast. (Photo By Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile via Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tyImages-2269267808.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)\">Northern Ireland , United Kingdom &#8211; 4 April 2026; Stuart McCloskey of Ulster is tackled by Sam Parry, left, and Dan Edwards of Ospreys during the EPCR Challenge Cup match between Ulster and Ospreys at Affidea Stadium in Belfast. (Photo By Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile via Getty Images)<\/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)\">In horribly difficult playing conditions, Ulster booked their place in the Challenge Cup quarter-final after overcoming the Ospreys in an arm-wrestle of a contest.<\/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)\">It sets up another home tie for Ulster when they will take on Ronan O\u2019Gara\u2019s La Rochelle next Friday evening, with a place in the last four for the winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster 28 Ospreys 24 Northern Ireland , United Kingdom &#8211; 4 April 2026; Stuart McCloskey of Ulster is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,31398],"class_list":{"0":"post-382510","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","14":"tag-ulster-rugby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382510","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=382510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}