{"id":265751,"date":"2026-01-27T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265751\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:00:13","slug":"leinster-refuse-to-blame-connachts-4g-pitch-after-jack-boyles-freak-season-ending-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265751\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster refuse to blame Connacht\u2019s 4G pitch after Jack Boyle\u2019s freak season-ending injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Boyle of Leinster leaves the pitch with an injury during the United Rugby Championship match against Connacht at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo by Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sports3327597.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)\">Jack Boyle of Leinster leaves the pitch with an injury during the United Rugby Championship match against Connacht at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo by Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">As Jack Boyle confronts the prospect of not being able to play rugby for the rest of the season following Leinster\u2019s confirmation that he must undergo a procedure on his ankle, the club are refusing to condemn the surface upon which he suffered his catastrophic injury.<\/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)\">Despite widespread evidence alighting upon the issue of serious injuries sustained on artificial surfaces compared to grass, latterly from the CSO in Ireland, as well as multiple studies conducted in the UK and Ireland and notably from the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Leinster assistant coach Robin McBryde refused to point the finger at the 4G pitch in Connacht where Boyle suffered his catastrophic 20th minute injury on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Boyle of Leinster leaves the pitch with an injury during the United Rugby Championship match against Connacht&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28454,8495,61,60,11287,112],"class_list":["post-265751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-david-kelly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265751","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=265751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}