Exile Healy a stand-out shining star for West Indies’ Sevens

TOM HEALY is literally the stand-out rugby player in the West Indies.

White men are a rare sight in the Caribbean’s growing union playing community and Healy’s skin tone has set plenty of tongues wagging in recent months.

The 28-year-old Cork-born accountant lives, works and plays in Bermuda and his call up to the West Indies for the IRB Sevens tournament in San Diego earlier this year turned Healy into something of a minor celebrity.

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