{"id":11759,"date":"2025-03-11T19:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/harry-byrne-bristol-bears-extend-loan-of-leinster-fly-half\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T19:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:52:28","slug":"harry-byrne-bristol-bears-extend-loan-of-leinster-fly-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/harry-byrne-bristol-bears-extend-loan-of-leinster-fly-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Byrne: Bristol Bears extend loan of Leinster fly-half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bristol Bears have extended Harry Byrne&#8217;s loan from Leinster until the end of the season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old has made six appearances since<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c8xj21jg5pxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"> joining the club at the turn of the year<\/a> as injury cover for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cd9xv05kgj3o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">AJ MacGinty<\/a>, scoring 36 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He initially joined on a three-month loan but that has now been extended until the end of the season, with the Bears second in the league and on course for a home semi-final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fly-half Byrne has four international caps for Ireland, playing twice in last year&#8217;s Six Nations title-winning campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Harry has been excellent for us on and off the field since arriving on loan and we&#8217;re pleased to keep hold of a player of his quality and experience for the remainder of the season,&#8221; director of rugby Pat Lam told the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolbearsrugby.com\/news\/bears-extend-harry-byrnes-loan-until-end-of-2024-25-season\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cwyjvppgdp9o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol Bears have extended Harry Byrne&#8217;s loan from Leinster until the end of the season. The 25-year-old has made six appearances since joining the club at the turn of the year as injury cover for AJ MacGinty, scoring 36 points. He initially joined on a three-month loan but that has now been extended until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11761,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions\/11761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}