Ireland captain Caelan Doris is a major doubt for the summer tour to Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n
The No.8 started Leinster\u2019s Friday night\u2019s URC Grand Final win over the Bulls at Croke Park after being a doubt due to a knee injury. He lasted just six minutes of the 36-7 win with a foot injury eventually forcing him off and with Jack Conan taking his place.<\/p>\n
Andy Farrell\u2019s Ireland squad is due to fly out to Australia on Monday ahead of their opening game against the Wallabies in Sydney but Doris wasn\u2019t exuding optimism when asked about his chances of making the plane after the Bulls game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ll see. I’m not sure. We’ll see how it unfolds over the next 24 hours.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mayo man had started like a train, making three carries and all of which had made a major dent in the opposition defensive line, but he could now be facing a situation where he has to sit out a big tour Down Under for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n
It was a shoulder injury suffered in the Champions Cup semi-final loss to Northampton Saints last season that cost him his place on the British and Irish Lions tour to Australia \u2013 and quite possibly the captaincy along with it.<\/p>\n
Wing Tommy O\u2019Brien is another doubt for this latest venture down south after he hobbled off against the Bulls just shy of the half-time whistle. That aside it was a memorable night for Leinster who dominated the Bulls in the final for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnbelievably proud. Obviously very disappointed going off,\u201d he said. \u201cI was battling the knee a little bit, that was fine in the end, but my foot got the better of me. It was class watching on.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot how I would have hoped the game went for me personally, but I absolutely loved sitting on the side watching the lads front up physically. It was class to watch, similar to last year in some ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cDelighted for the group, the lads leaving, but also for the coach himself. The effort that they\u2019ve put in. Leo in particular is Leinster through and through. He wants the best for the group and has desired this more than anyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot for himself, but for the group and the collective. I\u2019m glad we were able to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland captain Caelan Doris is a major doubt for the summer tour to Australia and New Zealand. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-509360","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\/509360","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=509360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}