{"id":640583,"date":"2026-06-15T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640583\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:24:10","slug":"united-rugby-championship-leinster-prop-andrew-porter-to-miss-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640583\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship: Leinster prop Andrew Porter to miss final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland prop Andrew Porter has been ruled out of Leinster&#8217;s United Rugby Championship final with the Bulls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Porter was forced off in the first half of the semi-final win over the Stormers and will miss Friday&#8217;s decider at Croke Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Caelan Doris and hooker Dan Sheehan are also both injury doubts and will be assessed before the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doris picked up a knee injury in the win over the Stormers while Sheehan missed the last-four tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Porter was absent for Ireland&#8217;s Six Nations campaign with a calf issue and head coach Andy Farrell is set to name his squad for July&#8217;s internationals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland will face Australia, Japan and New Zealand in their opening Nations Championship fixtures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leo Cullen&#8217;s Leinster are aiming to win the URC in back-to-back years after they missed out on a fifth Champions Cup success with defeat by Bordeaux in Bilbao in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryan Baird, Jack Boyle, Will Connors, Hugh Cooney, RG Snyman, Charlie Tector and Paddy McCarthy are long-term absentees for Leinster and will miss the URC decider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game is a repeat of last season&#8217;s final, which Leinster won 32-7, and the Bulls have lost three of the past four deciders as they look to win their first URC title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland prop Andrew Porter has been ruled out of Leinster&#8217;s United Rugby Championship final with the Bulls. Porter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640583","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\/640583","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=640583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}