{"id":290377,"date":"2026-02-10T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290377\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:02:12","slug":"john-conlon-sat-there-with-leeches-on-his-finger-to-get-the-regrowth-clare-stars-extraordinary-comeback-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290377\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018John Conlon sat there with leeches on his finger to get the regrowth\u2019 \u2013 Clare star\u2019s extraordinary comeback from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Conlon of Clare has recovered from a bad finger injury. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c0134882-df3e-41a5-b82b-d4cb5a902052.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)\">John Conlon of Clare has recovered from a bad finger injury. Photo: 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)\">\u201cSo you\u2019re telling me there\u2019s a chance?\u201d is an unforgettable line from the iconic comedy Dumb and Dumber but it was also the only inspiration that John Conlon needed to hear after suffering a horror finger injury last summer.<\/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 Clare hurling star would normally remove his wedding ring for training but he thought little of leaving it on when the Clonlara squad went for a few pucks after a gym session last July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Conlon of Clare has recovered from a bad finger injury. Photo: Sportsfile \u201cSo you\u2019re telling me there\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30041,100310,61,60,23501,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-290377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-clare-gaa","9":"tag-allianz-hurling-league","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-michael-verney","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290377","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=290377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}