Blow for Connacht as McSharry out for season

Promising centre Dave McSharry is in a race against time to be fit for Ireland’s summer tour in June.

The 23-year-old is due to have surgery on a troublesome groin injury and looks set to miss all four of Connacht’s remaining games in the RaboDirect PRO12.

McSharry was capped for Ireland Wolfhounds against England in January and was drafted in by Declan Kidney to the extended Irish training squad on a number of occasions.