Leinster boss Leo Cullen ‘disappointed’ as prop Healy faces two weeks out for striking

Following an independent disciplinary hearing in London yesterday, Leinster prop Cian Healy was handed a two-week suspension for striking Toulon’s Guilhem Guirado in the province’s European Rugby Champions Cup encounter with the Top 14 outfit on December 13.

Healy received a yellow-card for the offence at the time, and even though he was initially issued with a retrospective two-week ban, after Leinster successfully argued the Clontarf native was not afforded due process, he was cleared to play against the same opposition in the Aviva Stadium six days later.

He also featured from the replacements bench away to Munster last Sunday, but the citing complaint delivered by match citing commissioner John Byett of England was yesterday upheld by independent judicial officer, Jerry Summers.