{"id":302643,"date":"2026-02-17T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302643\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:39:08","slug":"arundell-avoids-ban-so-is-available-to-face-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302643\/","title":{"rendered":"Arundell avoids ban so is available to face Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Arundell is free to face Ireland on Saturday after escaping a ban for being sent off in England&#8217;s Guinness Six Nations defeat by Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Arundell was shown two yellow cards in the first half of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/rugby\/2026\/0214\/1558470-fired-up-scotland-end-englands-winning-streak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">31-20 loss at Murrayfield<\/a> in round two, with the second resulting in a 20-minute red card, thereby triggering a citing.<\/p>\n<p>However, a disciplinary hearing held on Tuesday decided that the &#8220;sending off of the player had been a sufficient sanction and no further sanction was appropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Six Nations 2026 table after round two\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0023e643-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch England v Ireland in the Six Nations on Saturday from 1pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to commentary on Saturday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n<p>Watch France v Italy in the Six Nations on Sunday from 2.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Arundell is free to face Ireland on Saturday after escaping a ban for being sent off in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-302643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302643","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=302643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}