Healy shaken, but may still be stirred into action

CIAN HEALY faced an anxious overnight wait before getting the nod to take his place in Leinster’s Magners League final squad to face the Ospreys at the RDS tonight (6.30pm).

Healy was forced to give up his loose-head prop starting position to Stan Wright as CJ van der Linde faces into his last Leinster appearance on the other side of the front row in advance of his return to South Africa.

Healy has been bracketed with Mike Ross in the list of replacements announced yesterday by Michael Cheika, the coach noting: “Cian Healy has had a bit of an illness over the last seven to 10 days and only got back into training yesterday.