{"id":16478,"date":"2012-11-07T20:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/rugby-oconnell-adds-to-ireland-injury-woes\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T20:39:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:39:25","slug":"rugby-oconnell-adds-to-ireland-injury-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-oconnell-adds-to-ireland-injury-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-O&#8217;Connell adds to Ireland injury woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DUBLIN<\/span> Nov 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Former British and Irish Lions captain Paul O&#8217;Connell will sit out Ireland&#8217;s international against South Africa on Saturday after a recurrence of a back injury, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Munster lock, dogged by injury in recent years, has played only twice this season. He returned to training at the start of the week but pulled out after suffering a &#8220;reaction&#8221;, the IRFU said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The IRFU did not say whether O&#8217;Connell would be available for the Nov. 24 international at home to Argentina, saying an update would be issued after he sees a specialist.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ireland were already without captain Brian O&#8217;Driscoll, fullback Rob Kearney, flanker Sean O&#8217;Brien and hooker Rory Best for the November internationals.    (Reporting by Conor Humphries, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN Nov 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Former British and Irish Lions captain Paul O&#8217;Connell will sit out Ireland&#8217;s international against South Africa on Saturday after a recurrence of a back injury, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) said on Wednesday. The Munster lock, dogged by injury in recent years, has played only twice this season. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-16478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}