{"id":496243,"date":"2026-06-12T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496243\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:29:08","slug":"jack-crowley-could-miss-irelands-nations-championship-tour-with-blood-vessel-issue-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496243\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Crowley could miss Ireland\u2019s Nations Championship tour with blood vessel issue \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jack-crowley\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jack-crowley\">Jack Crowley <\/a>could miss all or part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-rugby\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-rugby\">Ireland\u2019s<\/a> inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nations-championship\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nations-championship\">Nations Championship<\/a> summer fixtures against Australia, Japan and New Zealand in July if he fails to recover from a blood vessel issue that sidelined him towards the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cJack, I don\u2019t anticipate he\u2019ll be involved in the early part of the internationals,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/munster-rugby\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/munster-rugby\">Munster<\/a> head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/clayton-mcmillan\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/clayton-mcmillan\">Clayton McMillan<\/a> in an interview with the Irish Examiner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe\u2019s got a blood vessel issue in the back of his leg, which is good that something\u2019s been identified. He\u2019s got a plan around how to manage that, but it literally is just a very obscure, unfortunate thing that was really hard to diagnose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe\u2019s got a diagnosis now, he has a plan around how to get it back, and I\u2019m just not sure medically what the return to play protocols around that are. It\u2019s not like a concussion or a broken arm or leg, it\u2019s something that could literally solve itself overnight, or it might take a month or two. And that\u2019s not being cryptic, that\u2019s just the nature of what he\u2019s going through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On the fitness of Tadhg Beirne, McMillan confirmed the Munster captain \u201cis back running. I don\u2019t anticipate that he\u2019ll have any issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A group of players from three of the provinces excluding Leinster are expected to train in the high-performance centre over the weekend ahead of Andy Farrell\u2019s Irish squad announcement for the Tests next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland will play Australia in Sydney on July 4th before moving up the New South Wales coast to Newcastle to face Japan on July 11th. They will take on New Zealand in Auckland on July 18th. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Crowley could miss all or part of Ireland\u2019s inaugural Nations Championship summer fixtures against Australia, Japan and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11896,61,60,1449,43771,11897,86133,43,58217],"class_list":["post-496243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-clayton-mcmillan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-jack-crowley","tag-munster-rugby","tag-nations-championship","tag-news","tag-tadhg-beirne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496243","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=496243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}