Guinness PRO12: Leinster will not appeal Jack McGrath's stamping ban
Wednesday 14 January 2015 20:45, UK
Jack McGrath will serve his three-week ban for stamping on Ulster’s Rory Best after Leinster chose not to appeal the suspension.
McGrath will now miss Leinster's crucial European Champions Cup Pool Two matches in the next fortnight, but will then return in time for Ireland's Six Nations opener in Italy.
Leinster could have jeopardised the forward's early Six Nations participation with an appeal.
If the case had been thrown out then the prop's ban could have been increased and left him unavailable for the start of the Six Nations as Ireland aim to defend their 2014 crown.
A Leinster statement read: "After considering all the options and taking considerable advice, including legal, Leinster Rugby have confirmed that they will not be appealing the decision by the Guinness Pro12 disciplinary committee to suspend Jack McGrath for three weeks, effectively ruling him out of the two Champions Cup Pool Two games this weekend and next.
"The matter is now at an end and Leinster Rugby will be making no further comment."
Leinster sit second in Pool Two of the Champions Cup with two fixtures left to play and the Dublin province host Castres this weekend before facing Wasps in Coventry in round six.
