{"id":412190,"date":"2026-04-22T18:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412190\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:51:10","slug":"blow-for-leinster-as-max-deegan-banned-for-champions-cup-semi-final-against-toulon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412190\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow for Leinster as Max Deegan banned for Champions Cup semi-final against Toulon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Max Deegan of Leinster and Werner Kok of Ulster after the United Rugby Championship match at Affidea Stadium in Belfast. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sports3429623.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)\">Max Deegan of Leinster and Werner Kok of Ulster after the United Rugby Championship match at Affidea Stadium in Belfast. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/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)\">Max Deegan will be suspended for Leinster\u2019s Champions Cup semi-final against Toulon after his red card against Ulster last Friday night.<\/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 back-row, who started last year\u2019s semi-final defeat to Northampton Saints and would be in the mix for a place in the matchday 23 for the all-important Aviva Stadium clash, was sent off for a dangerous collision with the airborne Werner Kok in the 60th minute of his side\u2019s win at Ravenhill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Deegan of Leinster and Werner Kok of Ulster after the United Rugby Championship match at Affidea Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11287,16766,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-412190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-leinster-rugby","11":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412190","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=412190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}