{"id":323650,"date":"2026-03-01T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323650\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:13:10","slug":"bundee-aki-and-jimmy-obrien-recalled-to-ireland-squad-as-harry-byrne-ruled-out-of-wales-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323650\/","title":{"rendered":"Bundee Aki and Jimmy O\u2019Brien recalled to Ireland squad as Harry Byrne ruled out of Wales clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harry Byrne receives medical attention during Leinster's United Rugby Championship defeat to Cardiff in Wales last Friday. Photo: Chris Fairweather\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sports3371009.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)\">Harry Byrne receives medical attention during Leinster&#8217;s United Rugby Championship defeat to Cardiff in Wales last Friday. Photo: Chris Fairweather\/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)\">Bundee Aki could be set for an Ireland return against Wales on Friday night after being recalled to the squad by Andy Farrell.<\/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)\">Amid growing speculation that the centre could move to England at the end of this season, Aki made his return to action after a suspension in Connacht&#8217;s win over Glasgow Warriors yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Harry Byrne receives medical attention during Leinster&#8217;s United Rugby Championship defeat to Cardiff in Wales last Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4174,43,16766],"class_list":["post-323650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323650","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=323650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}