‘Class operator’ Carbery primed to face Ulster

Munster’s inability to select from a full stock of fit fly-halves could continue for another week after JJ Hanrahan was sent for a scan on a hamstring injury, leaving a finally fit-again Joey Carbery as the next man up to face Ulster in Belfast this Friday.

The delight which greeted Carbery’s return from an ankle injury to provincial colours for the first time this season last Saturday had been tempered by the revelation he had replaced a stricken Hanrahan, the Kerryman having ably held the reins in the absence of both Carbery and Tyler Bleyendaal since mid-November.