Paddy Jackson relishing return and ready for ‘tough battle’

Fly-half Paddy Jackson, centre Darren Cave and Chris Henry are the last men standing of Ulster’s Ireland World Cup contingent.

Jackson and Cave both start this evening in the Guinness Pro12 inter-provincial against Munster at Thomond Park while flanker Henry will be introduced later in the game.

While Ulster skipper Rory Best is given another week to recover, Iain Henderson, Tommy Bowe and Jared Payne have all gone under the surgeon’s knife post-World Cup and will be watching games from the sidelines for quite a while.