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Ireland prop Andrew Porter denies he was involved in foul play that led to Antoine Dupont's serious knee injury in France's ...

Ireland interim head coach Simon Easterby has strongly defended Tadhg Beirne and Andrew Porter in response to criticism from ...

The Irish prop has hit back after the France coach referred him and Tadhg Beirne to the citing commissioner due to Antoine ...

Andrew Porter says he has a clear conscience over the incident which saw Antoine Dupont suffer a serious knee injury in ...

Ireland prop Andrew Porter rejected accusations of France head coach Fabien Galthie around incident that left Antoine Dupont ...

Ireland prop Andrew Porter has insisted there was no foul play or malice in the incident which saw France captain Antoine ...

Like Leavy, Dupont's knee was caught among collapsing bodies during a Leinster game against Ulster but Porter insisted that nobody was to blame. "It [Saturday's incident] was a rugby incident.

I think it was in a ruck, his leg got trapped in between a ruck, when he was trying to counter it and he obviously just got trapped and went over, but that's rugby, that happens." Porter and ...