{"id":216044,"date":"2025-12-05T02:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/216044\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:11:14","slug":"south-africas-eben-etzebeth-receives-12-week-ban-for-eye-gouging-against-wales-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/216044\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s Eben Etzebeth receives 12-week ban for eye gouging against Wales &#8211; The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxOamJhV2dhb1ZkNHkzV09NQTdFWU5jajhWUFBqdzdpbXRZczM5eURKVFpienp5S0dxc3RKQnROUHdMSHU1TlYzS2NhWWpQX25Rb0U0NHp1dXdMd05WMjlPVWJiR2pnQ3JuaHhKd3JvRmJLNWhyR0ExbGV5UC1fZmVBX2dmR1ZxN1Y3S2l2dkdfQXJ0Q3JmRXpDdkRUTDhVY191UndfWEx6Y09DVmdYQTYyN0hFbkR4MEs1TUp3bWlFa3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Africa\u2019s Eben Etzebeth receives 12-week ban for eye gouging against Wales<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxPN0VSUms4Q2doV2tGSm1qV3FFYnRucnhUNGRaNV9TbGhPR3YzMDVZWFk5RE90ZmFldzNCV1g5R3V5ZFZ5VkdZcXBUVmpGbTJBU3BUQThlOUo1QzFodklFZXBsdnpFV29GaVJKLThCaVV0NEhnajNTZFh3Ti1Wd0pwcXhlZVRUZHNsSE45b2dCa0ktQzF1SXBUTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;I had to start defending myself &#8216; &#8211; Springboks lock Eben Etzebeth handed 12-match ban for eye gouging<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMia0FVX3lxTE5OeklpYVRHQjRpZWRPbUFISkJwTVNqY2plTXZsdWJHNWhiSHo4VDVNNTNXRlhlY1o5RjV6bk9pay1heHpRLUFFZ29JMkwtNWY1cHRqcXUyOE5FRUlROTY2WEZBbVZUa2EtV2VN?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eben Etzebeth banned for 12 weeks over eye-gouge against Wales<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMic0FVX3lxTFBwR0pCTzVTbm1POVZLVWZyT0VYc3Yyd3N1TlVCVUJjYTdMWU9EZ0dCNXpDOGdNNlV4c3gtTlU5a2IyVUhlUmRCbEEtb1JlMGpFRVJCNDhnWHg2blJkMmJBZFFmU2ZlWnRmclNZeW5PbGlJMlk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donal Lenihan: Springboks supremacy aided by eight man bench &#8211; does World Rugby need to revisit rule?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi7AFBVV95cUxPVWM2c3MxRXhON0hIUjVyYk1fenNZMkxQVm5CbDlhR3ByNWhTaFpzcExnR3F6Q0dxaXN5X1E5bWFKVEZiVEMyNFpGNDZrd255U3ZSejFiYklZeTVlcGRYdkI3c1hxS1kzSFJyTjVfYkFWSHIyU1ViMGNmSERTQTBMSjVJd085OWg2R2hjbk5CLXExXzlLc00zTDBQbGpQdTM4UHFPY2MtQ0ZweTgwMVVRNWU4VGJwUk1kNUg0Rm5STmlnUUJhMGpWOXQ4Q0p0MG40ZXFONmNGdXBQdTdmRHZiSVp2TVlHTmdneWJwdA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eben Etzebeth: South Africa lock handed 12-week ban for &#8216;intentional&#8217; eye gouge on Alex Mann vs Wales<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky Sports<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s Eben Etzebeth receives 12-week ban for eye gouging against Wales&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times &#8216;I had to start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[75579,18,19,17,132,4389],"class_list":{"0":"post-216044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-autumn-nations-series","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-springboks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115664537925194103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}