Reddan fit and looking to make fast Rabo start

Last Friday’s 21-13 defeat by Northampton Saints in Donnybrook was Leinster’s final pre-season fixture before the start of their RaboDirect Pro12 campaign this coming Friday, but for international scrum-half Eoin Reddan it represented his first piece of on-field action since breaking his leg against France in the RBS Six Nations on March 10.

“It was great [to get a run-out]. It was nice for it to go okay and I’m looking forward to next week now,” Reddan said.

“It didn’t dislocate. I tore some ligaments and had a break in the fibula. It was a lengthy injury, but there was nothing too crazy there that [meant] it was going to be hard to rehab. It was just getting into the hard work really.”