Cian Healy on target for World Cup duty

The 2014/15 season proved a tough one for Leinster and Irish prop Cian Healy. Despite playing a significant part in Ireland’s Six Nations Championship success, a series of injuries limited the experienced tight head to nine appearances at provincial level.

Neck surgery meant that the Clontarf native was marked absent for the closing weeks of the Leinster’s troublesome campaign, but speaking at the Aviva Stadium yesterday, Healy is confident that he will back to full fitness in time for Ireland’s World Cup journey.

“I was saying to them that I wasn’t going to go into it (surgery) if it was going to cut me out of a World Cup. The surgeon sat down and told everything that all going well, I’ll be ready by the end of July to be hitting scrums and full tackles,” Healy revealed.