Arm injury puts Rhys Ruddock’s Ireland World Cup dream in jeopardy

Emerging Ireland 33 Uruguay 7: Rhys Ruddock’s hopes of taking part in the World Cup rest upon the results of an x-ray after damaging his right arm just two months after surgery.

There were concerns among the Ireland camp last night after Ruddock was forced off just 20 minutes into captaining the Emerging XV in their stop-start victory over Uruguay in Tbilisi.

It was the same forearm the Leinster back-row broke against Harlequins in December that ruled him out of the Six Nations and that later required surgery in April following an unsuccessful return.