{"id":22694,"date":"2013-09-19T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T00:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/oconnor-in-drunken-airport-incident\/"},"modified":"2013-09-19T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T00:52:11","slug":"oconnor-in-drunken-airport-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/oconnor-in-drunken-airport-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Connor in \u2018drunken\u2019 airport incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=17111\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17111  \" alt=\"Wallabies winger James O'Connor finds himself in potential hot water once again with the ARU, days after playing in the narrow win over Argentina in Perth on Saturday. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fbce1_320191-130918-james-o-039-connor-600x337.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wallabies winger James O\u2019Connor finds himself in potential hot water once again with the ARU, days after playing in the narrow win over Argentina in Perth on Saturday. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>James O\u2019Connor\u2019s future in Australian rugby will depend on the result of an ARU investigation of an incident at Perth airport last Sunday when the controversy-plagued Wallabies winger was escorted from the terminal by the Australian Federal Police.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor, who is understood to be on his last chance with the Wallabies after a string of disciplinary incidents stretching back several years, is understood to have been refused permission to board an Air Asia flight to Bali with his girlfriend because he was intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>Only hours earlier he had played in Australia\u2019s hard-fought 14-13 Rugby Championship win over Argentina at Subiaco Oval.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the AFP yesterday alleged O\u2019Connor was affected by alcohol but an ARU spokesman said it was still investigating whether this was the case. It is believed O\u2019Connor has denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AFP can confirm it spoke to a 23-year-old man at Perth International Airport in the early hours of the 15th of September (Sunday),\u201d the AFP said in its statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged the man was intoxicated. The airline the man was booked to travel with made a decision not to allow him to board the aircraft. The AFP subsequently escorted the man from the terminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An ARU spokesman said last night the union was still trying to establish precisely what happened at the airport. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Rugby Championship news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/rugby-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fbce1_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wallabies winger James O\u2019Connor finds himself in potential hot water once again with the ARU, days after playing in the narrow win over Argentina in Perth on Saturday. Photo: Getty Images James O\u2019Connor\u2019s future in Australian rugby will depend on the result of an ARU investigation of an incident at Perth airport last Sunday when [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/22694","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=22694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}