By DARAGH SMALL
REIGNING champions Connacht kept their top six hopes alive but crucially failed to secure a bonus point in their victory over Dragons.
Connacht scored 14 points in as many minutes at the start of the game, but despite the tries from Tiernan O’Halloran and Caolin Blade, Angus O’Brien kicked three penalties for Dragons and Connacht could not add to their tally.
“It’s pretty frustrating when we were 14 points up after 10 or 15 minutes and you saw the chances we threw away with loose offloads in the first half,” said O’Halloran.

“That ...