Cian Healy: I was dying for a game and angry I wasn't getting the opportunity earlier

Healy scored his second try of the autumn in a seven-try to one hammering of Argentina as he made his 112th Test appearance

Ireland's Cian Healy scores a try that is later disallowed by the TMO. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Cian Healy may have helped drive up the average age of the Ireland team that finished off Argentina in the last quarter on Sunday by several points but the veteran front-rower is relishing the opportunity to play alongside team-mates with more than 100 fewer caps.

Healy, 34 last month, and centre Keith Earls, five days his senior, were the anomalies on an Ireland bench that helped secure a 53-7 victory over the Pumas at Aviva Stadium, the replacement loosehead prop scoring his second try of the autumn in a seven-try to one hammering as he made his 112th Test appearance.