{"id":242288,"date":"2025-12-20T05:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242288\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:53:12","slug":"late-dan-sheehan-try-seals-leinster-comeback-as-festive-interpros-begin-with-bonus-point-win-over-ulster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242288\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Dan Sheehan try seals Leinster comeback as festive interpros begin with bonus point win over Ulster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dan Sheehan of Leinster, hidden, dives over to score his side's fourth try during the United Rugby Championship win over Ulster at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4a24f02f-02fa-4af8-b20d-dbead34f3f25.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)\">Dan Sheehan of Leinster, hidden, dives over to score his side&#8217;s fourth try during the United Rugby Championship win over Ulster at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Seb Daly\/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)\">They left it late, but a less than convincing Leinster finally got the job done, coming from behind to see off a battling Ulster who had led 17-7 at the halfway point.<\/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)\">As had been expected, the powerful Leinster bench made the difference, Dan Sheehan \u2013 who scored the winning try which brought the bonus point \u2013 as well as Tadhg Furlong, and the McCarthys, Paddy and Joe, gradually wore Ulster down up front, their extra physicality proving crucial in this interpro even though this was still a dissatisfying performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Sheehan of Leinster, hidden, dives over to score his side&#8217;s fourth try during the United Rugby Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12861,103271,132,23200,42271],"class_list":{"0":"post-242288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-leinster-rugby","12":"tag-michael-sadlier","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ulster-rugby","15":"tag-united-rugby-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115750345402558539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242288","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=242288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}