Andy Farrell happy to see fit Joey Carbery back in green

Munster fly-half set for first international start in 23 months when Ireland face Japan on Saturday

Munster's Joey Carbery at Ireland training. Picture: Inpho/Ryan Byrne

If Joey Carbery can grab hold of Saturday’s Test against Japan the same way he has managed his return to the Ireland camp these past two weeks then Andy Farrell will take an awful lot of positives from the fly-half’s first international start in 23 months.

Sidelined for so long, primarily with an ankle injury that first surfaced against Italy in an August 2019 World Cup warm-up match, Carbery was last seen in green two months later on the night Joe Schmidt’s side were bundled out of the tournament itself by the All Blacks in Japan.