{"id":420108,"date":"2026-04-27T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:48:16","slug":"cork-full-back-ciaran-joyces-hurling-season-over-after-rupturing-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420108\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork full back Ciar\u00e1n Joyce&#8217;s hurling season over after rupturing ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Ciar\u00e1n Joyce has suffered a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament rupture, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/cork-sport\/\">Cork<\/a> senior hurling camp have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Castlemartyr man jarred his leg contesting a ball with Shane O\u2019Brien just minutes into the first half of Sunday\u2019s Munster SHC Round 2 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41834534.html\">win over Limerick<\/a> in SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Former captain Robert Downey is also set to miss the remainder of the provincial campaign after damaging ankle ligaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Glen Rovers man, who was troubled by a knee problem in last year\u2019s campaign, is set to be out for six weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Joyce himself had hamstring issues this time last year and his absence is a major blow having settled in his new full-back position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Speaking about the injury on Sunday, manager Ben O\u2019Connor admitted the outlook was bleak for 2025 All-Star Joyce.<\/p>\n<p>      x<\/p>\n<p>         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Benefits Image\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4975826_1_org_banner_2026.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Irish Examiner Logo\" id=\"soft-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4975829_1_org_Irish_Examiner_banner.png\"\/><br \/>\n            Unlimited access starts here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"banner-text-subhedline\" id=\"soft-description\">Try from only  \u20ac0.25 a day.<\/p>\n<p id=\"soft-signin\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;font-size: 18px;line-height: 22px;padding-left: 10px;padding-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/cork-sport_topic-5206315.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A collection<\/a> of the latest sports news, reports and analysis from Cork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ciar\u00e1n Joyce has suffered a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament rupture, the Cork senior hurling camp have confirmed. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,2110,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-420108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-cork-sport","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420108","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=420108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}