{"id":263174,"date":"2025-11-05T01:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263174\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:04:18","slug":"tadhg-beirnes-red-card-rescinded-after-disciplinary-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263174\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadhg Beirne&#8217;s red card rescinded after disciplinary hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tadhg Beirne will be free to play in Ireland\u2019s Quilter Nations Series clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a> this weekend after an independent disciplinary committee rescinded the red card he received against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Beirne received the red card for an act of foul play contrary to Law 9.13, with the match official initially handing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lions<\/a> forward a yellow card, but placing the incident under review. The Foul Play Review process deemed the action to be a red card offence.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old put forward his case for the red card to be rescinded at a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday evening, and ultimately, the committee agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving considered the Player\u2019s and other evidence and reviewed the footage, the Disciplinary Committee accepted the Player\u2019s submissions that whilst an act of foul play had occurred, it did not meet the red card threshold,\u201d a release from the hearing read.<\/p>\n<p>A committee chaired by Christopher Quinlan KC managed the hearing, with former international referee Wayne Erickson (Australia) and former international player Becky Essex (England) assisting.<\/p>\n<p>The law in question is defined as: \u201cA player must not tackle an opponent early, late or dangerously. Dangerous tackling includes, but is not limited to, tackling or attempting to tackle an opponent above the line of the shoulders, even if the tackle starts below the line of the shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beirne will face no disciplinary action and is free to play out the remainder of the Autumn Test window, which for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> includes Tests against Japan, Australia, and South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadhg Beirne will be free to play in Ireland\u2019s Quilter Nations Series clash with Japan this weekend after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-263174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263174","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=263174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}