forced off in the early stages<\/a> of Leinster’s United Rugby Championship final win over the Bulls at Croke Park on Friday.<\/p>\nLeinster wing Tommy O’Brien has also been ruled out of the three summer matches with a groin injury. <\/p>\n
Ulster duo Bryn and Zac Ward have been called up in place of the injured duo, while hooker Dan Sheehan will captain Ireland in the absence of Doris. <\/p>\n
Andy Farrell’s side fly to Sydney on Monday ahead of the Nations Championship opener with Australia on 4 July. <\/p>\n
Ireland then take on Japan on 11 July and New Zealand at Eden Park the following week in the other summer fixtures.<\/p>\n
Losing both Doris and O’Brien is a blow for Farrell, who is also without fly-half Jack Crowley and key prop Andrew Porter.<\/p>\n
Doris limped off in the seventh minute of the game but returned to lift the URC trophy and join in the celebrations with his team-mates at full-time.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the game, he said he would get the injury “checked out” but it is severe enough to rule him out of all three summer matches. <\/p>\n
O’Brien, who scored the opening try in Leinster’s Investec Champions Cup final defeat by Bordeaux, has had another impressive campaign but was also forced off against the Bulls with a groin issue.<\/p>\n
The Ward brothers have been rewarded for an impressive campaign with Ulster, who now have 10 players in the Ireland squad after a much-improved campaign.<\/p>\n
Wing Zac, 27, previously played for Ireland in Rugby Sevens and has featured in four Emerging Ireland and Ireland ‘A’ fixtures.<\/p>\n
Back row Bryn, 21, had a breakthrough season with Ulster and played a key role as Richie Murphy’s side reached the Challenge Cup final, and he was also a training panellist for the Six Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland captain Caelan Doris will miss July’s Nations Championship matches with Australia, Japan and New Zealand with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649568","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\/649568","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=649568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}