Healy believes it important to be positive in training and not an 'energy vampire'

Cian Healy puts his best foot forward when he steps into the training ground and be a positive influence within Ireland camp.

POSITIVE INFLUENCE: Cian Healy tries to be a positive influence in training camp. Pic: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

It was two World Cups ago that Cian Healy decided it was time to make a difference and become a positive influence within the Ireland camp rather than, as he succinctly put it, “an energy vampire”.

The now veteran loosehead prop, 35 years old, with 124 Test caps and staring into a fourth World Cup campaign next month, had seen the type, the squad-mates who sucked vitality out of the dressing room rather than injecting it for the good of the collective.