{"id":444523,"date":"2026-05-12T06:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444523\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:35:14","slug":"leinsters-jack-conan-back-in-training-ahead-of-ospreys-clash-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444523\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster\u2019s Jack Conan back in training ahead of Ospreys clash \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Jack Conan, Paddy McCarthy and Alex Usanov will integrate back into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\">Leinster<\/a> training this week, with Tommy O\u2019Brien and Jordan Larmour available for selection for Saturday\u2019s URC clash with Ospreys at the Aviva Stadium (KO: 5.30pm, live on TG4 and Premier Sports 1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Conan hobbled off with a knee injury after Leinster\u2019s 29-25 win over Toulon in the Champions Cup semi-final, so it is positive news that the Irish international is returning to fitness ahead of the final against Bordeaux B\u00e8gles in Bilbao in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Brian Deeny and Joshua Kenny will be further assessed ahead of the Ospreys game for their availability after picking up injuries last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tadhg Furlong and James Lowe continue to integrate into training, while Josh van der Flier and Robbie Henshaw are following graduated return to play protocols after a head injury and a decision on their availability will be made later in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Will Connors has been ruled out of the game through injury. There are no further updates on Ryan Baird, Jack Boyle, RG Snyman and Charlie Tector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Leinster are third in the URC table after 17 games, with qualification for the knockout stage guaranteed ahead of the final game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Conan, Paddy McCarthy and Alex Usanov will integrate back into Leinster training this week, with Tommy O\u2019Brien&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,83014,11287,112,14881],"class_list":["post-444523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-conan","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-sports","tag-united-rugby-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444523","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=444523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}