{"id":295509,"date":"2025-12-02T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/295509\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:00:07","slug":"ireland-rugby-connachts-mack-hansen-a-six-nations-doubt-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/295509\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Rugby: Connacht&#8217;s Mack Hansen a Six Nations doubt after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland back Mack Hansen has suffered another injury setback with his latest foot injury requiring surgery that could rule him out of the Six Nations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old first sustained the problem on the British and Irish Lions tour of Australia and missed all three Tests of the victorious series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Connacht back-three player reaggravated the issue on his only provincial appearance of the season against the Bulls in October and subsequently missed Ireland&#8217;s autumn series games against New Zealand and Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was named at full-back for the first time in his Test career against Australia and marked his return with a memorable first-half hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A week later against South Africa, however, he was replaced after 64 minutes with Connacht stating an estimate for his return will be determined after Tuesday&#8217;s surgery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland start their 2026 Six Nations away to France on 5 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Connacht face Ospreys in their 2025-26 Challenge Cup opener at Brewery Field, in Bridgend on Sunday (15:15 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hansen&#8217;s fellow Irish internationals Cian Prendergast and Caolin Blade will also miss the game through injury, while once-capped All Black Josh Ioane is a doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland back Mack Hansen has suffered another injury setback with his latest foot injury requiring surgery that could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-295509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}