Ireland suffer potential high profile casuality as Carbery carted off

Ireland could have suffered the first high profile casualty of their Rugby World Cup warm-up campaign after flyhalf Joey Carbery was carted off the field against Italy.

Carbery appeared to get his leg caught under a ruck in the 50th minute and received medical treatment on the pitch.

The Munsterman – clearly disconsolate – was apparently unable or unwilling to walk off and was eventually driven off by the medical cart.

Carbery was replaced at ten by Connacht’s Jack Carty, who together with Ross Byrne is Carbery’s closest rival to Ireland’s second flyhalf berth behind Jonny Sexton.

"That is a real worry for Ireland"

Fly-half Joey Carbery is taken off on a motorised cart after suffering a leg injury against Italy#C4rugby #IREvITA pic.twitter.com/pjijgSyr18

— Channel 4 Sport (@C4Sport) August 10, 2019

Joe Schmidt – who returned from New Zealand following a family bereavement – will be left with an anxious wait for news on the 23-year-old.

If significantly injured, Carbery, who was playing his 19th Test for Ireland, will have a number of players bidding to replace him.

Carbery, Byrne and Sexton are the three flyhalves included in the current Ireland camp. If Carbery were to be ruled out, Billy Burns, Tyler Bleyendaal and JJ Hanrahan could all potentially benefit with a call-up to the Rugby World Cup training squad.

Ireland current training squad

Forwards (23)
Finlay Bealham (Buccaneers/Connacht) 9 caps
Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster) 117 caps
Tadhg Beirne (Lansdowne/Munster) 5 caps
Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 14 caps
Sean Cronin (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 68 caps
Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster) 33 caps
Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster) 88 caps
Iain Henderson (Queens University/Ulster) 44 caps
Rob Herring (Ballynahinch/Ulster) 7 caps
Dave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians/Munster) 29 caps
Jean Kleyn (Munster) 0 caps
Jack McGrath (St Marys College/Leinster) 54 caps
Jordi Murphy (Lansdowne/Ulster) 27 caps
Tommy O’Donnell (UL Bohemians/Munster) 12 caps
Peter O’Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster) 57 caps
Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster) 14 caps
Rhys Ruddock (Lansdowne/Leinster) 21 caps
James Ryan (UCD/Leinster) 17 caps
John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster) 18 caps
Niall Scannell (Dolphin/Munster) 14 caps
CJ Stander (Shannon/Munster) 31 caps
Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster) 64 caps
Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster) 17 caps

Backs (20)
Will Addison (Enniskillen/Ulster) 3 caps
Bundee Aki (Galwegians/Connacht) 17 caps
Ross Byrne (UCD/Leinster) 2 caps
Joey Carbery (Clontarf/Munster) 18 caps
Jack Carty (Buccaneers/Connacht) 3 caps
Andrew Conway (Garryowen/Munster) 12 caps
John Cooney (Terenure College/Ulster) 8 caps
Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) 77 caps
Chris Farrell (Young Munster/Munster) 5 caps
Mike Haley (Munster) 0 caps
Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Leinster) 37 caps
Dave Kearney (Lansdowne/Leinster) 17 caps
Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster) 90 caps
Jordan Larmour (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 13 caps
Kieran Marmion (Galwegians/Connacht) 25 caps
Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster) 10 caps
Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster) 72 caps
Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster) 20 caps
Jonathan Sexton (St Marys College/Leinster) 83 caps
Jacob Stockdale (Lurgan/Ulster) 19 caps