Focused Healy itching for championship action

Cian Healy is a mobile enough loose head to know most of the Aviva Stadium playing surface fairly intimately by now, but the replacements’ bench will be unfamiliar terrain for him tomorrow evening.

Of his 47 caps, just two have been earned as a replacement, both of them coming against Samoa. Even his first cap against Australia, in November of 2009, was won on the back of an 80-minute slog, so when he is fit, he tends to start.

But not tomorrow.