{"id":483984,"date":"2026-03-19T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:23:07","slug":"rob-baloucoune-ireland-wing-to-miss-ulsters-run-in-with-elbow-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483984\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Baloucoune: Ireland wing to miss Ulster&#8217;s run-in with elbow injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His displays attracted praise from Ireland head coach Andy Farrell and earned him the Six Nations &#8216;Rising Player&#8217; award. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farrell will hope Baloucoune recovers in time for the start of Ireland&#8217;s Nations Championship campaign, with fixtures against Australia, Japan and New Zealand in July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baloucoune&#8217;s injury is another blow for Ulster boss Richie Murphy, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c4gjgk212mgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">without several players<\/a> for Friday&#8217;s URC game against Connacht. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week, the province confirmed Cormac Izuchukwu, James Hume and Dave Shanahan will miss the inter-provincial fixture after sustaining concussions in last week&#8217;s win over Edinburgh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jude Postlethwaite, who was part of Ireland&#8217;s Six Nations squad, will be unavailable for several weeks after suffering a hand fracture, while versatile back Jake Flannery is nursing a shoulder issue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second row Harry Sheridan is suspended following his red card against Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His displays attracted praise from Ireland head coach Andy Farrell and earned him the Six Nations &#8216;Rising Player&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483984","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\/483984","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=483984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}