{"id":442036,"date":"2026-02-24T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442036\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:05:08","slug":"six-nations-irelands-james-lowe-a-doubt-for-wales-game-with-groin-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442036\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: Ireland&#8217;s James Lowe a doubt for Wales game with groin injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland wing James Lowe is a doubt for the Six Nations game against Wales after he sustained a groin injury in his side&#8217;s 42-21 victory over England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old was forced off in the first half of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3ew5vk38g3o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday&#8217;s win at Twickenham<\/a> and on Monday the IRFU said he &#8220;will continue to be monitored by the medical team&#8221; before the game against Wales on 6 March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IRFU also confirmed that back row Jack Conan will return to training this week after missing the the record win over England through illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eleven players have been released from Andy Farrell&#8217;s squad to play for their provinces in the United Rugby Championship this weekend with the Six Nations on a down week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nathan Doak, Cormac Izuchukwu, Jude Postlethwaite, Tom Stewart and Bryn Ward will return to Ulster for their game away to Ospreys on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Byrne and Cian Prendergast are available for Leinster&#8217;s trip to Cardiff on Friday night while Darragh Murray will return to Connacht for their home game against Glasgow Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Recent debutant Edwin Edogbo, Tom Farrell and Michael Milne are available for Munster&#8217;s home game against Zebre on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rest of the Ireland squad will reconvene on Wednesday for a two-day camp in Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland wing James Lowe is a doubt for the Six Nations game against Wales after he sustained a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-442036","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\/442036","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=442036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}