Andrew Porter determined to learn from past mistakes

Andrew Porter on Ireland's task up front: 'Your front-row is your rock you are building on'. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Andrew Porter is learning to roll with the punches life in Leinster and Ireland’s front rows can throw at him, with an emphasis on ensuring the lessons can help him deliver the knockout blow next time around.

Italy and a traditionally strong Test front row are the tighthead’s next intended targets for that rebound process when he starts for Ireland tomorrow off the back of a chastening afternoon in last month’s Champions Cup quarter-final when the Leinster pack got a proper going over by Saracens.