Leinster await O’Brien damage report

The extent of Sean O’Brien’s shoulder injury will become much clearer today when Leinster reveal the findings of a scan on the joint which the flanker injured during Saturday’s PRO12 defeat of Ulster at the RDS.

O’Brien did the damage 53 minutes in, receiving considerable medical attention before being helped from the field in obvious pain, and word from the dressing-room was that the diagnosis was a dislocation.

Head coach Matt O’Connor was less definitive afterwards but the odds are that Carlow man now faces a couple of months out with the problem and is a major doubt for the first half of Ireland’s Six Nations campaign.