{"id":299201,"date":"2026-01-23T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/299201\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:29:09","slug":"connacht-v-leinster-weve-been-dreaming-about-this-since-we-were-kids-cian-prendergast-hoping-for-another-battle-with-younger-brother-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/299201\/","title":{"rendered":"Connacht v Leinster: \u2018We&#8217;ve been dreaming about this since we were kids\u2019 \u2013 Cian Prendergast hoping for another battle with younger brother Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brothers Sam (left) and Cian Prendergast embrace after a Leinster and Connacht URC match at the RDS. Photo: Harry Murphy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/108740599.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)\">Brothers Sam (left) and Cian Prendergast embrace after a Leinster and Connacht URC match at the RDS. Photo: Harry Murphy\/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)\">Cian and Sam Prendergast wished each other luck at the start of the week, but that will be the extent of the communication between the brothers before tomorrow\u2019s sold-out interpro derby at the redeveloped Dexcom Stadium.<\/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 Prendergasts have already played against each other a couple of times, including at the Aviva Stadium three weeks ago when Cian (25) forced two turnovers \u2013 from a jackal and a choke tackle \u2013 on Sam, who ultimately had the last word, as he scored one of eight tries and kicked 12 points in Leinster\u2019s thumping 52-17 win over Connacht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brothers Sam (left) and Cian Prendergast embrace after a Leinster and Connacht URC match at the RDS. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[148056,39921,23199,18,19,17,40692,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-299201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cian-prendergast","9":"tag-cian-tracey","10":"tag-connacht-rugby","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sam-prendergast","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115943713289928515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299201","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=299201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}