Henshaw mining the positives after World Cup woes

It wouldn't be like an Irish mammy to wish illness on her son but you wouldn't have blamed Robbie Henshaw's if she had regarded it as the lesser of two evils when it forced the Leinster centre to miss out on the visit to the Sportsground two weekends ago.

Henshaw had been pencilled in for his first club game of the season, and his first of any kind at the Galway venue since swapping Connacht for Leinster, until a bout of fever confined him to bed and spared his mother the worry over how the return to his old patch would have gone down.