{"id":444898,"date":"2026-05-12T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444898\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:59:10","slug":"paddy-mccarthy-among-big-contingent-of-returning-players-for-leinsters-end-of-season-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444898\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy McCarthy among big contingent of returning players for Leinster\u2019s end-of-season push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster's Paddy McCarthy. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5c917e86-af03-4de6-a489-493b45f9df3b.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)\">Leinster&#8217;s Paddy McCarthy. Photo: 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)\">The number of players training at Leinster\u2019s UCD base this week has swelled as a number of big-hitters move closer to a return from injury ahead of next week\u2019s Champions Cup final against Bordeaux Begles.<\/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)\">Ireland prop Paddy McCarthy is one of a number of players closing in on a return in what is a significant boost to Leo Cullen and Jacques Nienaber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster&#8217;s Paddy McCarthy. Photo: Sportsfile The number of players training at Leinster\u2019s UCD base this week has swelled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11287,28577,16766,112],"class_list":["post-444898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-leo-cullen","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444898","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=444898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}