Boks the top priority for Best

RORY BEST has been wrapped in cotton wool for his own good this week, but that won’t make missing tonight’s Magners League clash with Munster at Ravenhill any easier to bear.

Having made his representative debut against Munster in 2005 and seen the fixture grow in status, it’s a game he just does not like having to skip.

But national commitments — Best is currently number one Irish hooker — and a niggling injury put paid to any slight hope that he might be allowed back to Belfast to play in this top four clash.