Fit-again Butler glad to be back at coal face

RABO DIRECT PRO12:

Butler’s on-field activities have been restricted after breaking his thumb in October and then sustaining a spinal concussion that initially appeared to be a career threatening injury.

The 23-year-old back row would prefer to forget the past five months, and particularly one day at the end of January when he sustained the latter injury that led to the abandonment of Shannon’s Ulster Bank League game with Blackrock College.