{"id":170495,"date":"2025-06-09T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170495\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:50:09","slug":"leinster-vs-bulls-british-and-irish-lions-quartet-injury-doubts-for-urc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170495\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster vs Bulls: British and Irish Lions quartet injury doubts for URC final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British and Irish Lions squad members Tadhg Furlong, Garry Ringrose, Hugo Keenan and Josh van der Flier are injury doubts for Leinster&#8217;s United Rugby Championship final against the Bulls.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Furlong, Ringrose and Keenan are nursing calf injuries while Van der Flier&#8217;s hamstring issue will be assessed before Saturday&#8217;s game against the South African side at Croke Park, Dublin (17:00 BST). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tight-head prop Furlong has endured an injury-plagued season and last played in Leinster&#8217;s Investec Champions Cup semi-final loss to Northampton on 3 May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old has managed just eight appearances for Leinster while he missed all but one of Ireland&#8217;s Six Nations matches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centre Ringrose has missed the play-offs since coming off injured against Zebre on 10 May, while Van der Flier sustained his hamstring problem in the URC quarter-final win over Scarlets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fit-again back Jordan Larmour is available to face the Bulls after being part of the extended matchday squad in last weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cre9llz78l1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">semi-final win over Glasgow,<\/a> while wing Tommy O&#8217;Brien came through that game with no issues after returning from a foot injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions squad members Tadhg Furlong, Garry Ringrose, Hugo Keenan and Josh van der Flier are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114653969455660423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}