{"id":497984,"date":"2026-05-22T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/497984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:17:12","slug":"live-ulster-v-montpellier-challenge-cup-final-%c2%b7-the-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/497984\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Ulster v Montpellier, Challenge Cup final \u00b7 The 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                2 hrs ago            <\/p>\n<p>                                    7:05PM\n        <\/p>\n<p>Hello and welcome along to our coverage of the Challenge Cup final as Ulster take on Montpellier.<\/p>\n<p>This could be a great night for Ulster who won the Heineken Cup in 1999, and the Celtic League in 2006. Richie Murphy\u2019s side will contest this final for the first time this evening against a team who have won this competition twice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re attending the game this evening, or just want to get involved in the coverage, do leave a comment below and enjoy the updates as they happen.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have team line-ups for you in the next few minutes as we gear up for the 8pm kick-off in Bilbao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 hrs ago 7:05PM Hello and welcome along to our coverage of the Challenge Cup final as Ulster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,216651,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,122298,28744,15,16,64010,216652,5,2525,7,8,41016],"class_list":["post-497984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-challenge-cup-final","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-live-scores","tag-liveblog","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-minute-by-minute","tag-montpellier-rugby","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-ulster"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116620076408965281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497984","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=497984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}