{"id":42929,"date":"2025-08-04T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42929\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:42:08","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-dan-sheehan-given-four-match-ban-for-illegal-clear-out-during-third-wallabies-test-rugby-union-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42929\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions: Dan Sheehan given four-match ban for illegal clear-out during third Wallabies Test | Rugby Union News"},"content":{"rendered":"

British and Irish Lions hooker Dan Sheehan has been suspended for four matches following his illegal clear-out of Australia’s Tom Lynagh during Saturday’s third Test in Sydney.<\/p>\n

The sanction will be reduced to three games, subject to the Ireland and Leinster player successfully completing a coaching intervention course.<\/p>\n

Sheehan’s challenge in the first half of the Lions’ 22-12 loss at Accor Stadium went unpunished by Georgian referee Nika Amashukeli before he was retrospectively cited.<\/p>\n

Replays showed the 26-year-old’s elbow appeared to make contact with his opponent’s head.<\/p>\n

Wallabies fly-half Lynagh kicked a penalty moments after the incident but was then withdrawn for a head injury assessment (HIA) and did not return.<\/p>\n

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Highlights of the third Test between Australia and the British and Irish Lions in Sydney<\/p>\n

Sheehan will be unavailable for Leinster’s pre-season match with Cardiff on September 13 and United Rugby Championship (URC) fixtures against South African sides the Stormers and the Sharks on September 26 and October 11 respectively.<\/p>\n

If he serves the full four-match ban, the forward will also sit out his province’s URC derby with rivals Munster on October 18.<\/p>\n

World Rugby’s independent review committee deemed Sheehan’s actions to be reckless, that contact was made with Lynagh’s head, and ruled the action amounted to a high degree of danger without mitigation.<\/p>\n

Sheehan, who was captaining the Lions at the time after skipper Maro Itoje failed an HIA, has accepted the sanction.<\/p>\n

However, in his submissions, the player did not agree foul play occurred or that the offence warranted the citing.<\/p>\n

Despite their weekend loss, Andy Farrell’s Lions celebrated a 2-1 series success over Australia following victories in Brisbane and Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2025 Rugby Championship contested between Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina exclusively live on Sky Sports between August 16-October 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions hooker Dan Sheehan has been suspended for four matches following his illegal clear-out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-42929","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\/42929","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=42929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}