O’Donnell gets the call as Henry adds to injury woe

Munster’s Tommy O’Donnell told the province’s website yesterday how he had to leg it from his house in Cahir to Limerick to pick up some boots and gear before making for Carton House and duties with the Ireland set-up.

The wonder is that O’Donnell and every other fit professional rugby player with Irish qualifications isn’t sitting by the phone with the car running right now such is the rate of playersbeing lost to injury by Declan Kidney’s side.

Chris Henrybecame the latest to check in to thecasualty ward yesterday after an MRI scan confirmed to team doctors that the Ulster back row had suffered a cartilage tear to his knee during the province’s defeat of Zebre last Friday.