Ulster’s Aviva try-hero Gilroy out to impress

HISTORY-MAKER Craig Gilroy, the first person to score a try at the new Aviva Stadium, gets a chance to put down a marker for Ulster when he faces London Harlequins at the Stoop tomorrow in the second of three pre-season friendlies.

The Dungannon winger is one of a number of youngsters thrown into their first Ulster senior outing in a game will feature rolling replacements.

The Belfast teenager, who came through the ranks at Methodist College, is named on the right wing while highly-rated Queen’s University scrum-half Ian Porter gets a start alongside Niall O’Connor at half-back.

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