Ireland’s Casualty Ward – The List Of Professional Rugby Players In Ireland Currently Injured
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Ireland are currently experiencing one of their worst periods in history for injured players.
The bruising affair with France in the Rugby World Cup has had a knock-on domino effect with a host of names all over the country suffering injuries, with a vast amount of them being serious long term issues.
The Irish Times have put together a interesting list that highlights every single player in Ireland and the injury that is currently keeping them out. It’s quite astonishing to see just how many players are suffering at the moment and it begs the question, is rugby becoming more and more unsafe and does the welfare of players need to be looked at.
IRELAND’S CASUALTY WARD
Ireland Squad:
Seán O’Brien
Suffered a grade two hamstring tear against France and will definitely miss the rest of Ireland’s games in the Six Nations.
Mike McCarthy
The secondrow suffered concussion against France and following a visit to a specialist, has now been ruled out for the rest of this season.
Dave Kearney
The Leinster winger sustained an AC shoulder injury against France and , according to Joe Schmidt, is “likely to miss the rest of the Six Nations”.
Cian Healy
After recovering from neck, hamstring and ankle injuries, Healy’s right knee required an elective procedure which ruled him out of Ireland’s opening two games against Wales and France. Returned for Leinster last Friday.
Marty Moore
Suffered a torn hamstring in the defeat to Wasps in January which will sideline him for six to eight weeks in total.
Luke Fitzgerald
Suffered a medial knee ligament injury in the Irish squad’s open session at the Aviva nine days before the tournament opener, sidelining him for up to eight weeks.
Mike Ross
Sustained a knee injury against Toulon in December which sidelined him for seven weeks until returning last week against Zebre, thus also ruling him out of the Wales and France matches.
Jared Payne
Suffered a grade one hamstring injury against France and is in doubt for Twickenham.
Iain Henderson
Tore hamstring in Ulster’s home win over Edinburgh in early December, sidelining for the rest of the season or, at best, a return in March/April.
Tommy Bowe
Suffered cruciate knee ligament injury in World Cup quarter-final defeat to Argentina. May return for Ulster before end of the season.
Peter O’Mahony
Suffered a serious cruciate ligament injury in the World Cup win over France and is targeting a return in April or May.
Keith Earls
Suffered concussion against Wales, ruling him out of the French game, but should be fit for Twickenham clash.
Simon Zebo
Suffered a knee injury against Wales, ruling him out of the French game, but should be fit for Twickenham.
The Provinces:
ULSTER
Peter Nelson
Dislocated his left midfoot in the Pro12 defeat of Edinburgh last December, which effectively ended his season.
Luke Marshall
Luke Marshall has suffered his fifth concussion since March 2013, the 24-year-old centre picked up the latest in training last week.
Dan Tuohy
Sidelined since early December when fracturing his right ankle and suffering ligament damage against Edinburgh.
LEINSTER
Hayden Triggs
Recently returned after a two months’ absence since injuring his ankle against Bath in November, subsequently requiring surgery.
Jack Conan
The backrow returns to Leinster action away to Cardiff on Saturday after suffering a broken foot last November.
Ed Byrne
Ruptured his patellar tendon in the first of Leinster’s pre-season friendlies, requiring an operation, and hasn’t played since. This was unconnected with the ACL injury to the same knee which kept him out for the second half of last season.
Royce Burke Flynn
The prop is currently out for four months after undergoing an operation on his neck last month.
Isaac Boss
Should be back in contention next week from a calf injury.
CONNACHT
Ben Marshall
Just recovered from a fractured arm sustained in December.
Jack Carty
Underwent splenectomy in Dubai last week. Sidelined indefinitely.
Shane Delahunt
(ankle)
Andrew Browne
(shoulder)
Quinn Roux
(ankle)
Nepia Fox-Matamua
(knee)
John Cooney
(shoulder)
Dave McSharry
(concussion)
Rory Parata
(knee)
Darragh Leader
(wrist)
MUNSTER
BJ Botha
Sustained an ACL injury during the Stade Francais game in January. Expected to be sidelined for the remainder of the season. Tyler Bleyendaal A quadriceps tendon setback has ruled out him for 12 weeks from the middle of last month. Will be rehabilitating his leg injury until April.
Duncan Casey
Sustained a pectoral muscle injury while playing in the Champions Cup defeat of Benetton Treviso in November and will continue rehabbing until March.
Stephen Archer
Sustained a neck injury in the Pro12 victory over Glasgow Warriors at Thomond Park in September. Has advanced to modified training and will continue to be monitored for next few weeks
Dave O’Callaghan
Sustained a rib injury during training in February. Is being reviewed and managed on an ongoing basis.
Read the Irish Times article in full here