{"id":208655,"date":"2025-12-24T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208655\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:58:07","slug":"leinsters-porter-returns-from-injury-for-munster-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208655\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster’s Porter returns from injury for Munster derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Porter is set to make his first Leinster appearance since October in Saturday’s interpro derby against Munster at Thomond Park.<\/p>\n

An arm injury had kept Porter out of Leo Cullen\u2019s plans in recent weeks, but he is fit again and will be joined in the front row by Ron\u00e1n Kelleher and Thomas Clarkson.<\/p>\n

Captain Caelan Doris is also back in the side having missed their hard-fought win over Ulster<\/a> at the Aviva Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n

Fresh from winning his 100th cap last week in Dublin, James Ryan is named once again in the second row where he is joined by Joe McCarthy.<\/p>\n

Max Deegan and Josh van der Flier will flank Doris in the back row.<\/p>\n

Jamison Gibson-Park and Harry Byrne make up the half-back pairing.<\/p>\n

Robbie Henshaw and Rieko Ioane are in midfield with a back three of James Lowe, Tommy O\u2019Brien and Ciar\u00e1n Frawley, who has been linked this week with a move to Connacht.<\/a><\/p>\n

Charlie Tector has come through the graduated return to play protocols has been named on the bench but Jack Conan has not been named in the squad.<\/p>\n

Leinster: Ciar\u00e1n Frawley, Tommy O\u2019Brien, Rieko Ioane, Robbie Henshaw, James Lowe, Harry Byrne, Jamison Gibson-Park, Andrew Porter, R\u00f3nan Kelleher, Thomas Clarkson, Joe McCarthy, James Ryan, Max Deegan, Josh van der Flier, Caelan Doris.<\/p>\n

Replacements: John McKee, Paddy McCarthy, Tadhg Furlong, Diarmuid Mangan, Scott Penny, Fintan Gunne, Charlie Tector, Andrew Osborne.<\/p>\n

Listen to live radio commentary of Connacht v Ulster (5.30pm) and Munster v Leinster (7.45pm) on RT\u00c9 Radio 1’s Saturday Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Porter is set to make his first Leinster appearance since October in Saturday’s interpro derby against Munster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-208655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208655","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=208655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}