{"id":477619,"date":"2026-06-01T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477619\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:03:12","slug":"six-ireland-stars-at-leinster-now-doubts-for-urc-semi-final-against-stormers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477619\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Ireland stars at Leinster now doubts for URC semi-final against Stormers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are seven players on the long term injury list, and six others and now worries for boss Leo Cullen<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Leinster's Joe McCarthy\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/94882_2969059.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\" Leinster's Joe McCarthy\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\"> Leinster&#8217;s Joe McCarthy(Image: \u00a9INPHO\/Ben Brady)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Leo Cullen has issued an injury update that includes seven players ahead of Saturday\u2019s BKT United Rugby Championship semi-final clash with DHL Stormers at Aviva Stadium (5.30pm, live on TG4 and Premier Sports 1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Joe McCarthy, Dan Sheehan, Tommy O&#8217;Brien, R\u00f3nan Kelleher, Garry Ringrose, Tadhg Furlong and Jordan Larmour will all be further assessed after picking up knocks in the previous two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A decision on their availability to be made on an individual basis later in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">There are a further seven players Ryan Baird, Jack Boyle, Will Connors, Hugh Cooney, RG Snyman, Charlie Tector, Paddy McCarthy are on the longer term injury list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=b1ea692a-d5b9-4239-b4e4-d4296e9f32c1&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Click here to sign up to our sport newsletter, bringing you the top stories and biggest headlines from Ireland and beyond<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are seven players on the long term injury list, and six others and now worries for boss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65851,83302,61,60,21457,10562,11287,28577,43,46618,69607,11581],"class_list":["post-477619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dan-sheehan","tag-garry-ringrose","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-mccarthy","tag-leinster","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-leo-cullen","tag-news","tag-ronan-kelleher","tag-tadhg-furlong","tag-urc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477619","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=477619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}