{"id":433393,"date":"2026-05-05T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433393\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:07:10","slug":"from-vodafone-salesman-to-answering-connachts-call-jerry-cahir-becomes-the-latest-leinster-star-to-move-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433393\/","title":{"rendered":"From Vodafone salesman to answering Connacht\u2019s call \u2013 Jerry Cahir becomes the latest Leinster star to move west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jerry Cahir will leave Leinster for Connacht in the summer. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3407510.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)\">Jerry Cahir will leave Leinster for Connacht in the summer. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/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)\">Jerry Cahir has become the latest Leinster star to link up with the province\u2019s former head coach in Connacht, Stuart Lancaster, after announcing his switch to his home province.<\/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 marks the culmination of an astonishing rise to prominence for the erstwhile All-Ireland League star, a diamond polished by so many beneath the professional structure of the sport, particularly Trinity\u2019s coaching legend, Tony Smeeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jerry Cahir will leave Leinster for Connacht in the summer. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile Jerry Cahir has become the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28454,8495,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-433393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-david-kelly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433393","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=433393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}