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\nJude Postlethwaite needs surgery on a fractured hand<\/p>\n
Ulster’s Harry Sheridan has been banned for three matches following his red card in the BKT United Rugby Championship Round 2 game against Edinburgh last Friday.<\/p>\n
Sheridan was sent off in the 45th minute of the match for a dangerous tackle.<\/p>\n
In a disciplinary hearing, Sheridan accepted he had committed an act of foul play which warranted the dismissal.<\/p>\n
The judicial officer opted for a mid-range entry on the punishment scale, which was six weeks.<\/p>\n
He received a 50% mitigation due to his “exemplary record, immediate remorse and acceptance of the red card”.<\/p>\n
That results in a three-game suspension.<\/p>\n
If he completes a World Rugby Coaching Intervention Programme then the sanction will be reduced by one week.<\/p>\n
As it stands he will miss this week’s URC clash with Connacht followed by the Zebre game at the end of the month.<\/p>\n
The final match is the EPCR Challenge Cup game with Ospreys on 4 April.<\/p>\n
The province will have their quartet of Ireland internationals back for Friday’s meeting with Connacht, but their lengthy injury list has grown after the impressive win at Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
\nJude Postlethwaite needs surgery on a fractured hand<\/p>\n
Richie Muphy’s team came from behind with 33 unanswered points to claim a 40-19 victory in Scotland.<\/p>\n
They’ll look to follow that up with a good showing at Affidea Stadium this week, however Murphy is down a number of bodies including Sheridan.<\/p>\n
David Shanahan, James Hume and Cormac Izuchukwu all sustained concussions in the game and are following the graduated return to play protocols.<\/p>\n
Jude Postlethwaite suffered a hand fracture and is set to have surgery. He’ll be sidelined for a number of weeks, as will Jake Flannery who sustained a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n
Charlie Irvine has a soft tissue injury to his lower leg and will be monitored over the next few days.<\/p>\n
In more positive news, Tom O’Toole, Tom Stewart, Nathan Doak and Jacob Stockdale have all returned from Ireland camp and are available for selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster’s Harry Sheridan has been banned for three matches following his red card in the BKT United Rugby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-352960","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\/352960","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=352960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}