{"id":229895,"date":"2026-01-06T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229895\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:25:10","slug":"robbie-henshaw-to-return-for-leinsters-champions-cup-clash-with-la-rochelle-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229895\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Henshaw to return for Leinster\u2019s Champions Cup clash with La Rochelle \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leinster<\/a> confirmed that Robbie Henshaw<\/a> has recovered from the finger injury that forced him off in the first half of his side\u2019s URC win over Munster at Thomond Park. He missed the Connacht game as a result but will be available for selection as the province switches focus to the Champions Cup.<\/p>\n

Garry Ringrose<\/a> and RG Snyman<\/a> have returned to training following injury and a decision about their availability for Saturday\u2019s pool match against La Rochelle at the Aviva Stadium (5.30pm) will be made later in the week.<\/p>\n

There is an element of a \u201cwait-and-see\u201d theme to the medical bulletin issued by Leinster ahead of the visit of Ronan O\u2019Gara\u2019s French club and perennial rivals. Outhalf Harry Byrne was a late withdrawal from the bench ahead of Leinster\u2019s 52-17 victory over Connacht, while tighthead prop Rabah Slimani tweaked a calf in the warm-up and dropped out of the matchday 23. Both will be further assessed before a decision is made on their availability.<\/p>\n

La Rochelle warmed up for the Leinster game by thrashing Toulon 66-0 in the French Top 14 on Sunday night, scoring 10 tries against a visiting side that contained 10 Espoirs or academy players. Will Skelton played his first game for the home side since November when coming on as a second half replacement.<\/p>\n

Toulon coach Pierre Mignoni left a host of frontline players back in the south of France with an eye on Sunday\u2019s Champions Cup clash with Munster (1pm, Irish time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster confirmed that Robbie Henshaw has recovered from the finger injury that forced him off in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32728,42,117866,11287,43,28580,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-229895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-champions-cup","tag-headlines","tag-la-rochelle-rugby","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-news","tag-robbie-henshaw","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229895","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=229895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}