{"id":234695,"date":"2026-01-08T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234695\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:02:12","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-joey-carbery-is-choosing-a-more-difficult-route-to-an-ireland-recall-for-2027-with-a-return-to-leinster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234695\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O&#8217;Connor: Joey Carbery is choosing a more difficult route to an Ireland recall for 2027 with a return to Leinster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bordeaux-Begles' fly-half Joey Carbery has been approached by Leinster to return to the province. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/deb30c0c-086c-45cd-944d-553b4fb2517c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bordeaux-Begles&#8217; fly-half Joey Carbery has been approached by Leinster to return to the province. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Joey Carbery will put himself in the 2027 World Cup picture when he moves back to Ireland next season, but choosing Leinster over Ulster gives him a far more difficult path to that tournament in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 30-year-old\u2019s return from France has been well signposted this season and once he becomes an Irish-based player again, he\u2019ll be part of Andy Farrell\u2019s selection picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bordeaux-Begles&#8217; fly-half Joey Carbery has been approached by Leinster to return to the province. Photo: Getty Images Joey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25747,61,60,11287,28577,16766,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-234695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-leinster-rugby","12":"tag-leo-cullen","13":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234695","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=234695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}