{"id":510281,"date":"2026-06-20T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510281\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:01:10","slug":"ireland-captain-caelan-doris-ruled-out-of-nations-championship-with-uncapped-brothers-called-up-rugby-union-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510281\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland captain Caelan Doris ruled out of Nations Championship with uncapped brothers called up | Rugby Union News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland captain Caelan Doris has been ruled out of the Nations Championship Southern Series along with Tommy O’Brien.<\/p>\n

They picked up injuries during Leinster’s URC final win on Friday<\/a> and have been replaced by Ulster’s uncapped brothers Bryn and Zac Ward.<\/p>\n

Doris was forced off at Croke Park with a foot injury, with O’Brien suffering a a groin complaint.<\/p>\n

They will miss matches against Australia on July 4, Japan on July 11 and New Zealand on July 18.<\/p>\n

\"Leinster<\/p>\n

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\n Doris and Tommy O’Brien picked up injuries during Leinster’s URC final win over the Bulls<\/p>\n

Andy Farrell’s squad depart for Sydney on Monday, with Leinster hooker Dan Sheehan leading the side for the three-match tour.<\/p>\n

Farrell, who extended his contract earlier this month<\/a>, had already suffered a string of injuries to key players with Jack Crowley, Andrew Porter and Mack Hansen all ruled out.<\/p>\n

\"Ireland<\/p>\n

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\n Ireland head coach Andy Farrell extended his deal earlier this month<\/p>\n

Crowley, who had re-established himself as Ireland’s starting fly-half during the 2026 Six Nations, had missed the end of the season with Munster because of an obscure nerve issue in his leg.<\/p>\n

Porter and Hansen had also suffered injury-hit campaigns.<\/p>\n

The IRFU confirmed a further seven players were unavailable due to injury: Ryan Baird, Shayne Bolton, Jack Boyle, Edwin Edogbo, Tom Farrell, Paddy McCarthy and Calvin Nash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland captain Caelan Doris has been ruled out of the Nations Championship Southern Series along with Tommy O’Brien.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-510281","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\/510281","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=510281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}