{"id":449583,"date":"2026-05-15T03:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449583\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:43:10","slug":"suspended-henderson-out-of-challenge-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449583\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Henderson out of Challenge Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster captain Iain Henderson will miss the Challenge Cup final after the Irish international was hit with a three-game ban for his red card against the Stormers.<\/p>\n<p>The lock received a yellow card against the South African side for a croc roll on Deon Fourie, which was later upgraded to a red card by the off-field bunker review.<\/p>\n<p>In a major blow for the province ahead of its first European final in 14 years when they take on Montpellier next Friday, the 34-year-old will miss the showpiece, as well as the final round URC game with Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>Should Ulster progress to the URC knockout stages, he would also miss a quarter-final. If not, the international fixture between Australia and Ireland on 4 July would complete the three-week suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster captain Iain Henderson will miss the Challenge Cup final after the Irish international was hit with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-449583","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\/449583","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=449583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}