{"id":443615,"date":"2026-05-11T17:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443615\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:57:11","slug":"mccarthy-back-training-in-further-boost-for-leinster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443615\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy back training in further boost for Leinster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Champions Cup final and a URC quarter-final, Leinster have been boosted by players nearing a return from injury as they target end-of-season silverware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/rugby\/2026\/0509\/1572499-leinster-up-to-third-after-bonus-point-win-against-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 31-7 win over the Lions <\/a>at the weekend guaranteed their spot in the last eight of the URC, while Saturday week against Bordeaux in Bilbao will see the province looking to end a wait of eight years in their quest to be champions of Europe again.<\/p>\n<p>Before all that is the concluding game in the regulation phase of the URC, with the Ospreys visiting the Aviva Stadium on Saturday next.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy McCarthy, who has been out with a foot injury since January, is back training and a decision on his availability will be made later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, however, is not part of the Champions Cup squad, with Leinster deregistering him for that competition, allowing Alex Usanov to come in.<\/p>\n<p>Usanov is also back training after an ankle complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Larmour and Tommy O&#8217;Brien have both returned to training.<\/p>\n<p>James Lowe, Tadhg Furlong, Jack Conan, Josh van der Flier, Robbie Henshaw and Jack Conan will all be monitored ahead of the Ospreys.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Deeny is due to be further assessed after sustaining an injury against the Lions, as is Joshua Kenny who withdrew from the squad prior to last Saturday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the Champions Cup final and a URC quarter-final, Leinster have been boosted by players nearing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-443615","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\/443615","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=443615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}