Luke Marshall signs new two-year Ulster deal

Ireland centre Luke Marshall has ignored a number of lucrative deals to sign a two-year extension to his Ulster contract that will keep him at Kingspan Stadium until the summer of 2018.

Marshall, 25 today, has six caps, having made a tremendous debut against Scotland just over two seasons ago. But a series of concussions and surgery on a damaged right thumb curtailed his international ambitions.

However, the pacy Ballymoney man has stormed back into form with five tries for the province and has been the ‘24th man” on a couple of occasions for the Ireland match-day squad.