{"id":213661,"date":"2025-10-14T21:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/213661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:38:11","slug":"ireland-rugby-ulster-forward-cormac-izuchukwu-to-see-specialist-over-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/213661\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland rugby: Ulster forward Cormac Izuchukwu to see specialist over foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cormac Izuchukwu has emerged as an injury doubt for Ireland&#8217;s autumn Tests after Ulster confirmed he will see a specialist about a foot injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old forward sustained the injury in Ulster&#8217;s United Rugby Championship win over the Bulls last weekend and is unavailable for Saturday&#8217;s fixture against the Sharks in Durban (15:00 BST). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Izuchukwu was expected to be named in Andy Farrell&#8217;s Ireland squad on Wednesday after scoring tries against the Dragons and Bulls in an impressive start to the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London-born player made his Ireland debut against Fiji last year and featured in the summer tour wins over Georgia and Portugal, but an ankle injury denied him a possible Six Nations debut earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After opening their season with back-to-back wins, Ulster face the Sharks and Lions on their South African tour before the autumn break. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cormac Izuchukwu has emerged as an injury doubt for Ireland&#8217;s autumn Tests after Ulster confirmed he will see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-213661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}