{"id":116596,"date":"2025-10-12T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/116596\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:37:10","slug":"leinster-take-urc-frustrations-out-on-sharks-to-get-title-defence-up-and-running-at-aviva-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/116596\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster take URC frustrations out on Sharks to get title defence up and running at Aviva Stadium"},"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\">Leinster 31 Sharks 5\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gus McCarthy of Leinster celebrates with teammate Diarmuid Mangan after scoring their fifth try during the United Rugby Championship win over Sharks at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/655cb271-9872-4b43-b0fc-295b8a4ab444.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)\">Gus McCarthy of Leinster celebrates with teammate Diarmuid Mangan after scoring their fifth try during the United Rugby Championship win over Sharks at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">After a humbling fortnight down in South Africa, Leinster returned home and took their anger out on the Sharks to get the defence of their URC title back on track.<\/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)\">Defeats to the Stormers and Bulls left Leinster playing catch-up, but they had no such trouble against South African opposition this time around, as the frustratingly inconsistent and ill-disciplined Sharks again flattered to deceive, despite having recalled several of their Springbok stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster 31 Sharks 5 Gus McCarthy of Leinster celebrates with teammate Diarmuid Mangan after scoring their fifth try&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[39921,18,19,17,12861,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-116596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-leinster-rugby","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}