Contrite Leinster lock Hayden Triggs gets three-week ban

Hayden Triggs has been ruled out of Leinster’s final Champions Cup pool game with Castres tomorrow night, after the lock received a three-week ban for making contact with the eye area of Montpellier’s Nic White during last Friday’s win at the RDS.

When the New Zealander was cited, there had been fears a longer ban would keep him out of a Champions Cup quarter-final tie. Had Triggs been deemed to have made contact with Triggs’ eye, the sanction would have been at least 12 weeks and potentially much longer.

However, yesterday’s hearing in Paris ruled that the infringement related to contact with the eye area rather than the eye itself.