Dan Leavy enters final straight in marathon rehab programme

Dan Leavy during a Leinster gym session last December. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Rugby's return, like so much else, remains up in the air but Dan Leavy will be fit and ready to play his part for club and country when it does.

The highly-rated flanker suffered a horrendous knee injury playing for Leinster during last season's Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final win over Ulster at the Aviva and has spent the past 12 months undergoing surgery and ploughing ahead with rehab.