Connacht have confirmed the signing of Leinster loosehead prop Jerry Cahir from next season.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old, who joined Leinster on a short-term deal last September, has quickly become a key part of Leo Cullen’s squad after injuries opened the door.<\/p>\n
Cahir has made 14 appearances this season, including four starts, and most recently came off the bench in Leinster\u2019s gritty Champions Cup semi-final victory over Toulon.<\/p>\n
Cahir, who represented Connacht at underage level, featured in both of Leinster\u2019s URC games with Connacht in January.<\/p>\n
Cahir is the third Leinster player to join Connacht for next season, with versatile back Ciar\u00e1n Frawley<\/a> and backrow Will Connors<\/a> having previously committed to the province.<\/p>\n “The opportunity to move to Connacht is something I\u2019m very excited about,” Cahir said.<\/p>\n “I am grateful to everyone at Leinster for all they have done for me this season, and for giving me an opportunity when nothing else was on the table. Now I\u2019m really looking forward to making the move to Connacht and hopefully making a similar impact.”<\/p>\n Watch Ireland v England in the Guinness Women’s Six Nations on Saturday from 6pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow our live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app and listen to Saturday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht have confirmed the signing of Leinster loosehead prop Jerry Cahir from next season. The 25-year-old, who joined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-433234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433234","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=433234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}