Conan feared he was heading home but grateful to all the medical staff for getting injury right

"I had flashbacks to sitting in some random Japanese hospital in the middle of nowhere with Ciaran (Cosgrave, Ireland team doctor) four years ago, with Ciaran again, and I was saying 'surely not? Doing it all again in the exact same spot?'

AVAILABLE FOR SELECTION: Simon Easterby confirmed that Jack Conan is back training and that all is good. 

The timing would perfect if Jack Conan were to make his World Cup comeback against Scotland eight days hence, from an injury he feared would rule him out of the tournament.

It was the back-rower’s misfortune to be sent home from Japan four years ago having faced the Scots in Yokohama in Ireland’s opening pool game, and while a foot injury similar to the one he sustained at the 2019 World Cup threatened to scupper his France 2023 ambitions, a return after nine weeks out against the same opposition would be a neat closing of the circle.