Cian Healy's loss is Jeremy Loughman's gain as real work starts now

RULED OUT: Cian Healy of Ireland after sustaining an injury during the Rugby World Cup warm-up match against Samoa. Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

One man’s difficulty and all that. Cian Healy’s should have been the seventh name listed when Ireland’s 33-man World Cup squad was revealed by team manager Mick Kearney, forwards first, in the Shelbourne Hotel Sunday afternoon.

Instead, the script skipped from Tadhg Furlong to Iain Henderson, Healy’s omission facilitating the presence further into the roll call of Munster’s Jeremy Loughman who was called into the wider collective just over ten days ago as injury cover.