{"id":247795,"date":"2025-12-23T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/247795\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:47:20","slug":"andrew-porter-returns-for-leinsters-urc-clash-with-munster-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/247795\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Porter returns for Leinster\u2019s URC clash with Munster \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/andrew-porter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/andrew-porter\/\">Andrew Porter<\/a> is back available for selection for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\">Leinster<\/a>\u2019s URC clash with Munster on Saturday at Thomond Park (KO: 7.45pm, live on Premier Sports 1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The prop has missed the last few weeks with an arm injury, but he can be selected for the interprovincial derby, as can backrow Will Connors after an arm issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Jack Conan could miss the game through a knee injury sustained against Ulster, as he is due to be further assessed, with a final decision to be made later in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It comes as Munster have confirmed all of Munster\u2019s Irish internationals will be available as they bid to complete a league double over Leinster for the first time in 11 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Captain Tadhg Beirne and scrumhalf Craig Casey sat out the 26-10 win away to Ospreys in Bridgend on Saturday evening, but they are poised to return. The province also look set to be boosted by the availability of hooker Diarmuid Barron and centre Dan Kelly after injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Porter is back available for selection for Leinster\u2019s URC clash with Munster on Saturday at Thomond Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[129280,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,12861,15,16,12311,5,7,8,42271],"class_list":["post-247795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-andrew-porter","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-munster-rugby","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-united-rugby-championship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115769668056010096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247795","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=247795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}