{"id":145713,"date":"2025-11-18T03:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145713\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:47:09","slug":"mccloskey-out-as-van-der-flier-ringrose-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145713\/","title":{"rendered":"McCloskey out as Van der Flier, Ringrose return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart McCloskey has been ruled out Ireland&#8217;s final November international against South Africa on Saturday after suffering a recurrence of a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Ulster centre was withdrawn after just 27 minutes of the team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/rugby\/2025\/1115\/1544129-hansen-hits-hat-trick-as-ireland-rout-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">46-19 victory over Australia<\/a> last Saturday and replaced by Bundee Aki.<\/p>\n<p>McCloskey suffered the same injury in Ireland&#8217;s game against New Zealand on 1 November and missed the win over Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Andy Farrell has not called anyone up as cover but has options in the form of Aki, Robbie Henshaw, Garry Ringrose, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley and Tom Farrell.<\/p>\n<p>Prop Thomas Clarkson passed his head injury assessments after being replaced against Australia late on and is expected to train fully this week.<\/p>\n<p>Leinster players Josh van der Flier and Ringrose are back in contention to face the Springboks at Aviva Stadium (5.40pm).<\/p>\n<p>The flanker and centre have recovered from hamstring issues after being ruled out of the 41-10 win over the Brave Blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Ireland v South Africa in the Quilter Nations Series on Saturday from 4.30pm on RT\u00c92 and the RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to live commentary on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart McCloskey has been ruled out Ireland&#8217;s final November international against South Africa on Saturday after suffering a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-145713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}