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Former Ireland wing Kearney set for months on sideline
By Ian Cameron
Former Ireland wing Dave Kearney is set for months on the sideline after undoing surgery on a hamstring injury.
It's the latest setback for the 32-year-old who won 19 caps between 2013 and 2019.
"Unfortunately, Dave Kearney had a procedure last week for a hamstring injury and will be unavailable for a number of months," Leinster said in a statement.
Kearney has been hit by a number of consecutive injuries in recent years, which have seen him fall from an Ireland regular during the latter part of the Joe Schmidt era to a player whose struggle for fitness has seen him drop down the pecking order in Leinster.
The was good news elsewhere on the Leinster injury front.
"There is positive news for both Ciarán Frawley and Conor O’Brien as the former came through the game against Connacht Rugby with no issues after his return from a facial injury. O’Brien has returned to full training after recovering from a hamstring injury.
"Ross Byrne was withdrawn for a Head Injury Assessment (HIA) in the first half against Connacht Rugby, which he passed, but he was removed with a dental injury. He will be further assessed as the week goes on before a final decision is made on his availability."
There was no updates on a number of Leinster's Ireland stars who were injured during the Guinness Six Nations, which included: prop Andrew Porter (ankle), lock James Ryan (concussion), back row Ryan Baird (back) and hooker Rónan Kelleher (shoulder).
Nor was there an update on Michael Milne, Jordan Larmour or Will Connors, who are also currently sans combat.
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I was at this match. Jordie Barrett earned his money with a massive hit to slow a connaught attack to win the math when Leinster had 14 in the last few mins. Mack Hansen had a real go at the refereeing after citing a serious head hits on Iaone and Aki.
connaught were up for this. Snyman tried a trademark dirty after, and the onnaught 4 and the onnaught pack absolutely laid into him.
Leinster hose to kick to the corner when only winning by 5 with 10 left and qith only 2 tries scored. onnaught should have punisihed them for that utter stupidity after they broke out and Leinster yellowed to stop the attack.
13 changes from last week. It seems teams are scoring about 10 points less against Leinster this year. With Neinaber in his second year, the new attack coah established, surely they will be a bigger threat in champions up? Or will the attack recgress further.
They must adopt the SA philosophy of take your 3 pointers and the bonus points will come.
connaught back line inluding Iaone, Murphy, Aki, Forde, cordero is the seond best in Ireland surely. Leinster were lucky here
Go to commentsShould have played more for England but he jumped ship just as he was breaking through.
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