Hull City have said that Ireland winger Robbie Brady is set to be out of action for a month.
The club have confirmed that the in-form 21-year-old will undergo surgery on a hernia problem later this afternoon.
Brady has already been ruled-out of Ireland's upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Germany and Kazakhstan.
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Hull have also revealed that Brady has been playing through the problem for a number of weeks, but the injury has now become too painful to cope with.
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