Broken right arm costs Rhys Ruddock place in Ireland World Cup squad

• Leinster flanker suffered the injury playing for Emerging Ireland• He had fractured same arm only six months before in European gameRhys Ruddock has been left out of Ireland’s World Cup squad after breaking his right arm for the second time in six months. The 24-year-old Leinster flanker sustained the injury while captaining Emerging Ireland against Uruguay.Ireland’s head coach, Joe Schmidt,confirmed Ruddock, who missed the Six Nations after fracturing the arm during Leinster’s European Champions Cup win against Harlequins in December, would have been in his initial World Cup training squad.…

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