{"id":389237,"date":"2026-04-09T04:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389237\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:54:18","slug":"cian-tracey-connacht-are-daring-to-dream-again-as-red-hot-form-mirrors-run-to-title-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389237\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Connacht are daring to dream again as red-hot form mirrors run to title in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bundee Aki celebrates with Matthew Devine after the latter scored a try against the Ospreys at Dexcom Stadium last month. Photo: Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f3711e4a-4ce3-4c86-b4fa-dfc342023260.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)\">Bundee Aki celebrates with Matthew Devine after the latter scored a try against the Ospreys at Dexcom Stadium last month. Photo: Paul Phelan\/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)\">When Connacht lost to Leinster at the end of January, on the night their impressive new stand at the Dexcom Stadium was officially opened, the disappointing defeat could have completely knocked them off course.<\/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)\">Instead, Connacht have won all six games they\u2019ve played since then, to breathe life back into their season and ignite the Stuart Lancaster era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bundee Aki celebrates with Matthew Devine after the latter scored a try against the Ospreys at Dexcom Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[131786,13503,28454,61,60,112,28460],"class_list":{"0":"post-389237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bundee-aki","9":"tag-cian-tracey","10":"tag-connacht-rugby","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-stuart-lancaster"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389237","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=389237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}