VIDEO: Schmidt: Paulie 'wasn't for budging'
Despite reuniting first-choice lock combination Paul O’Connell and Devin Toner, Joe Schmidt admitted Ulster’s Iain Henderson and Donnacha Ryan are pushing the engine-room argument to the limit.
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