Ulster's Iain Henderson the latest Ireland second-row to suffer injury setback

Second row facing up to 10 week lay-off after hip surgery

Ireland's second-row stocks will be sorely tested in the coming weeks with the news that Ulster's Iain Henderson has joined James Ryan and Tadhg Beirne on the sidelines just as the game gets back up and running.

Henderson recently had hip surgery and it is expected that he could be out for anything up to eight or ten weeks. A release from the province on Tuesday suggested a “mid-October” return which would rule him out of the rest of the interrupted PRO14 season and Ulster's European quarter-final.