{"id":441249,"date":"2026-05-10T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441249\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:14:10","slug":"connacht-boost-urc-play-off-hopes-thanks-to-thumping-bonus-point-derby-win-over-munster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441249\/","title":{"rendered":"Connacht boost URC play-off hopes thanks to thumping bonus point derby win over Munster"},"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\">Connacht 26 Munster 7\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shane Jennings of Connacht in action against Alex Kendellen of Munster\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f024580a-98cd-4ed2-82c9-09b932941ca0.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)\">Shane Jennings of Connacht in action against Alex Kendellen of Munster<\/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)\">The West\u2019s awake and Connacht are very much alive and kicking.<\/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 have given themselves a chance of securing a precious top\u2011eight spot in the URC heading into the final day of the regular season. Stuart Lancaster\u2019s men remain in ninth, but they will travel to Edinburgh next Friday \u2013 one point behind Ulster \u2013 still in with a shout of snatching a play-off place, and potential Champions Cup qualification with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht 26 Munster 7 Shane Jennings of Connacht in action against Alex Kendellen of Munster The West\u2019s awake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28454,42,11897,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-441249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-headlines","tag-munster-rugby","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441249","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=441249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}