Hard work paying off for Cian Healy

Murrayfield isn’t exactly flavour of the month in the Irish camp this week but Cian Healy wouldn’t be remiss if he were to reach back into a repository of happier memories from the Edinburgh ground ahead of this afternoon’s date at the Stadio Olimpico.

It’s almost two years since the Leinster loosehead last made the starting XV for a Six Nations game. It came at the home of Scottish rugby on the day that Ireland clinched the championship on points difference and celebrated in their suits and in the enveloping gloom with thousands of visiting supporters.

A peak interspersed with far too many troughs.