{"id":508963,"date":"2026-06-20T03:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:06:18","slug":"caelan-doris-ireland-captain-will-get-fresh-injury-checked-out-after-leinster-win-urc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508963\/","title":{"rendered":"Caelan Doris: Ireland captain will get fresh injury ‘checked out’ after Leinster win URC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland captain Caelan Doris says he will get the foot injury which forced him to leave the field early in Leinster’s emphatic 36-7 <\/a>United Rugby Championship final win over the Pretoria Bulls “checked out”.<\/p>\n

The back row retired hurt just seven minutes into the Croke Park encounter, having recovered sufficiently from a knee injury sustained in the team’s semi-final victory over the Stormers to take his place in the starting line-up for the decider.<\/p>\n

The sight of Doris coming off injured will have caused concern for Ireland coach Andy Farrell with his side’s Nations Championship opener against Australia in Sydney just two weeks away.<\/p>\n

Ireland also face Japan on 11 July and New Zealand one week later.<\/p>\n

Doris was replaced by Ireland team-mate Jack Conan, who went on to score one of his side’s five tries as they became the first side to claim back-to-back league titles, both signed off with successes over the Bulls.<\/p>\n

“I was optimistic about my knee and my knee was fine, it was actually something else, so we’ll get it checked later,” Doris told Premier Sports after the game.<\/p>\n

Asked later in the post-match press conference if the foot problem could affect his leaving for Australia with the rest of the Ireland squad, Doris said: “We’ll see how it unfolds over the next 24 hours.”<\/p>\n

The number eight commended his squad for “turning the page” on their European Champions Cup final defeat by Bordeaux-Begles last month by beating their South African opponents in Dublin on Friday.<\/p>\n

“To see us front up physically, it goes a long way to beating the Bulls,” he said.<\/p>\n

“From a big disappointment a few weeks ago, very proud of the whole organisation in how we’ve been able to turn the page and have such a very special day here.<\/p>\n

“We had an unbelievable start to the game and you could see the guys were on it physically and that went a long way towards the victory.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland captain Caelan Doris says he will get the foot injury which forced him to leave the field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-508963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508963","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=508963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}