{"id":363690,"date":"2011-04-03T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/03\/oconnell-injury-blow-for-munster\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T13:30:14","slug":"oconnell-injury-blow-for-munster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/03\/oconnell-injury-blow-for-munster\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Connell injury blow for Munster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"57.297297297297\">\n<div readability=\"48\">\n                    <span><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/18fb6ca553_oconnell.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Paul O'Connell is helped off the field at Thomond Park \" \/><\/p>\n<p>    Paul O&#8217;Connell hobbled off in Munster&#8217;s win over Leinste<br \/>\n  <\/span><br \/>\n<!-- empty related-stories for Wide -->                      <\/p>\n<p>Paul O&#8217;Connell is unlikely to play for Munster again this season after being injured in Saturday&#8217;s Magners League win over Leinster.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell was withdrawn six minutes into the second half after landing badly from a line-out.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors are waiting for bad swelling to reduce before making a definitive diagnosis on his injury. <\/p>\n<p>It appears likely that O&#8217;Connell has either snapped his Achilles tendon or damaged his ankle ligaments.<\/p>\n<p>The Munster captain will travel to Dublin on Monday for further medical examination.<\/p>\n<p>Munster will face Brive away in the quarter-finals of the Amlin Challenge Cup next Saturday afternoon, a game O&#8217;Connell appears certain to miss. <\/p>\n<p>Mick O&#8217;Driscoll is likely to deputise in the second row.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See original article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/rugby_union\/12951269.stm\" title=\"O'Connell injury blow for Munster\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">O&#8217;Connell injury blow for Munster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Paul O&#8217;Connell hobbled off in Munster&#8217;s win over Leinste Paul O&#8217;Connell is unlikely to play for Munster again this season after being injured in Saturday&#8217;s Magners League win over Leinster. O&#8217;Connell was withdrawn six minutes into the second half after landing badly from a line-out. Doctors are waiting for bad swelling to reduce before making a definitive diagnosis on his injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>O&#039;Connell injury blow for Munster - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/03\/oconnell-injury-blow-for-munster\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"O&#039;Connell injury blow for Munster - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Paul O&#039;Connell hobbled off in Munster&#039;s win over Leinste Paul O&#039;Connell is unlikely to play for Munster again this season after being injured in Saturday&#039;s Magners League win over Leinster. 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