‘Switched on’ Healy ready to right some wrongs

Cian Healy is relishing the opportunity to get back to basics and exact revenge on the Australians after a sobering night in Brisbane.

The loosehead prop will start this weekend’s second Test in Melbourne having come off the bench at Suncorp Stadium seven days earlier to endure the unusual experience of an Ireland team being bested at both the breakdown and the scrum.

The 30-year-old will win his 80th Ireland cap this weekend, nine years after a Test debut against the same Australian opposition in Dublin but it has been quite a while since the Grand Slam winners, unbeaten for 15 months before Saturday, had felt so under the pump as they did in Brisbane.