{"id":299726,"date":"2026-02-15T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299726\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:37:09","slug":"i-wish-it-was-a-shark-bite-mack-hansen-confirms-absence-from-summer-tests-due-to-freak-long-term-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299726\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I wish it was a shark bite\u2019 \u2013 Mack Hansen confirms absence from Summer Tests due to freak long-term injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Connacht star Mack Hansen being transported off the pitch after aggravating his foot injury against the Bulls in October - a setback which flared up playing for Ireland a month later and has now ruled him out for next summer's Tests. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13918cd0-6ba6-4ede-b836-b9b8bd576d4e.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)\">Connacht star Mack Hansen being transported off the pitch after aggravating his foot injury against the Bulls in October &#8211; a setback which flared up playing for Ireland a month later and has now ruled him out for next summer&#8217;s Tests. 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)\">Mack Hansen has confirmed that not only will he miss the rest of Connacht\u2019s season, he will not be back from injury for Ireland\u2019s inaugural Nations Championship in the summer when Ireland will play in New Zealand and his native 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 27-year-old winger is targeting being back for preseason training with Connacht in the summer and hitting the ground running for Stuart Lancaster\u2019s side at the start of the 2026\/27 season, a year out from the staging of the World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht star Mack Hansen being transported off the pitch after aggravating his foot injury against the Bulls in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-299726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299726","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=299726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}