{"id":302690,"date":"2026-01-25T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/302690\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:07:13","slug":"i-started-to-notice-the-old-neck-was-beginning-to-seize-ex-munster-and-ireland-prop-john-hayes-52-on-the-pain-he-suffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/302690\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I started to notice the old neck was beginning to seize\u2019 \u2013 ex-Munster and Ireland prop John Hayes (52) on the pain he suffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster, Ireland and Lions rugby legend John Hayes. Photo by Diarmuid Greene\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1944225.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Munster, Ireland and Lions rugby legend John Hayes. Photo by Diarmuid Greene\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former Munster and Ireland prop John Hayes has revealed that he suffers from serious neck pain following his illustrious playing career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking to The Currency, \u2018The Bull\u2019 Hayes opened up about how he only has one-eighth movement in his neck, which has almost entirely fused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster, Ireland and Lions rugby legend John Hayes. Photo by Diarmuid Greene\/Sportsfile Former Munster and Ireland prop John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,127607,39921,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,12311,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-302690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-british-irish-lions","11":"tag-cian-tracey","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-munster-rugby","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115954951328702379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302690","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=302690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}