{"id":590123,"date":"2026-08-11T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590123\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:08:11","slug":"henderson-out-for-a-number-of-months-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590123\/","title":{"rendered":"Henderson out for &#8216;a number of months&#8217; after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster and Ireland second-row Iain Henderson has been ruled out for the start of the 2026\/27 season after undergoing surgery on a hip injury during the summer, the province confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old, who has not played since being sent off in Ulster&#8217;s draw with the Stormers back in May, is now expected to miss &#8220;a number of months&#8221; as he recovers from the operation.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third time in Henderson&#8217;s career that he received treatment for a hip problem, having previously gone under the knife in 2014 and again in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The club also confirmed that Bryn Ward (shoulder), Juarno Augustus (ankle), and Jude Postlethwaite (knee) all had surgeries during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Ward, who made his breakthrough last season, posted the news on his Instagram account shortly after returning from Ireland&#8217;s Nations Championship trip down under, where the back-row forward won his first cap in the win over Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Augustus and Postlethwaite were both ruled out of test contention this summer with South Africa and Ireland respectively and, alongside Ward, will rehab their respective injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Ulster confirmed the signing of Martin Moloney and Daniel Hawkshaw on one-year-deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster and Ireland second-row Iain Henderson has been ruled out for the start of the 2026\/27 season after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-590123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590123","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=590123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}