O’Leary out for six weeks with broken thumb

Tomas O’Leary will miss, at least the next six weeks of the season after suffering a broken thumb in Munster’s Magners League loss to Leinster.

The Ireland scrum-half underwent an operation on the injured digit in Cork on Tuesday and is now in a cast, ruling him out of Munster’s upcoming Heineken Cup games as well as Ireland’s four-game series of Autumn internationals.