Revitalised Tommy Bowe happy to be back in big time with Ulster

Tommy Bowe is looking forward to Ulster’s Champions Cup game in Clermont on Sunday with a very particular reason to seek the win which would keep Ulster in contention for the quarter-finals.

“After Saturday’s win in Belfast, it was the happiest I’ve been in a long time, the European games are the ones you really miss. After two years with injuries there has been a lot of hard work put in, and to be in a dressing room with that sort of atmosphere certainly made it seem all worthwhile,” said the Ireland and two-time Lions winger.

Bowe’s return to Ulster in 2012 from a four-year spell with the Ospreys has been littered with injuries, though he fought back to fitness and form to reclaim his Ireland place for the 2015 World Cup, only to pick up a serious knee injury.