Eire back-rower Jack Conan stays an harm concern earlier than the Rugby World Cup after lacking his nation’s week-long coaching camp in Portugal.

Head coach Andy Farrell talked down the severity of the problem within the fast aftermath of the match.

Eire is not going to uncover the total extent of the harm till subsequent week.

Eire host England on the Aviva Stadium every week on Saturday, with Farrell scheduled to announce his remaining 33-man squad for France on Monday, 28 August, following a remaining warm-up fixture in opposition to Samoa.

Defence coach Simon Easterby stated: “You’d have seen after the sport that there have been a few gamers carrying bumps.

“The one person who hasn’t travelled with us from the squad is Jack Conan. He is stayed behind simply to rehab and we hope to get extra data on his harm subsequent week.

“We’re nonetheless ready on evaluation and we determined that it will in all probability be greatest for him to remain again in Dublin.”

Leinster participant Conan was pictured along with his proper foot in a protecting boot after departing the sector simply earlier than half-time in opposition to the Azzurri on the Aviva Stadium on Saturday.

The 31-year-old final week spoke of getting unfinished enterprise on the World Cup after his journey to Japan in 2019 was ruined by a stress fracture in his foot.

Full-back Jimmy O’Brien and scrum-half Craig Casey additionally sustained accidents on the weekend however have travelled with the remainder of the squad.

‘Actually not a full-blown recreation’

Eire are making ready to play an unofficial coaching match in opposition to Portugal on Wednesday, which ought to be helpful for suspended captain Johnny Sexton.

The 38-year-old fly-half, who has not performed since sustaining a groin harm on the finish of the Six Nations, can not return to aggressive motion till his nation’s World Cup opener in opposition to Romania on 9 September on account of a three-match ban.

Easterby insists the session “is not a full-blown recreation”.

“It would not be the primary time it occurred,” stated Easterby. “Typically groups collaborate with different groups and get the chance to do some set-piece in opposition to one another and to run some backline in opposition to backline.

“It definitely is not a full-blown recreation. It is a situation coaching session which has been a collaboration between the Portuguese coaches and ourselves round making an attempt to create a coaching session which is barely totally different from the norm.

“When you already know one another so nicely and get the chance to coach in opposition to one another for 4 or 5 weeks, you typically cancel one another out by way of what you try to do in assault and defence.

“I suppose it is a kind of alternatives we needed to join up with the Portuguese to coach in opposition to them and to problem ourselves in approach you would not usually do in a traditional coaching week.

“He [Sexton] might be enjoying a component within the coaching session, for certain – as will each different participant that is right here.”