Heaslip will overcome injury frustrations, says Dempsey

Jamie Heaslip was once renowned as the rugby player who could not be broken.

It is all too ironic, then, that a return to full fitness seems almost as remote for the Leinster and Ireland No.8 now as it did seven months ago when he first suffered an injury during the warm-up for the Six Nations meeting with England.

“I wish I could give you some update, in terms of timeframe,” said Leinster assistant coach Girvan Dempsey yesterday.