{"id":313964,"date":"2026-02-24T02:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313964\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T02:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:21:16","slug":"ireland-wait-on-news-of-lowes-injury-conan-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313964\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland wait on news of Lowe&#8217;s injury; Conan returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Lowe will continue to be assessed for a groin strain, while Jack Conan has returned to training following an illness in the wake of Ireland&#8217;s record 42-21 victory at Twickenham.<\/p>\n<p>Leinster wing Lowe was withdrawn early in Ireland&#8217;s win in London, suffering a groin issue as he sought to chase a loose England pass close to the Irish try-line.<\/p>\n<p>Conan, who had impressed in his second half showing against Italy, was ruled out before kick-off and replaced on the bench by Cian Prendergast.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a number of players have returned to their respective provinces ahead of the resumption of the BKT URC this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Byrne, Nathan Doak, Edwin Edogbo, Tom Farrell, Cormac Izuchukwu, Michael Milne, Darragh Murray, Jude Postlethwaite, Cian Prendergast, Tom Stewart and Bryn Ward could all play for their sides.<\/p>\n<p>The URC returns this weekend, with Leinster away to Cardiff on Friday, Munster hosting Zebre and Ulster visiting Ospreys on Saturday, while Scarlets are the visitors to Connacht&#8217;s Dexcom Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s next Six Nations game is at home to Wales on Friday week at 8.10pm, the game shown live on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Lowe will continue to be assessed for a groin strain, while Jack Conan has returned to training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-313964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313964","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=313964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}