Nash ankle injury gives Munster fresh headaches

Winger forced to hospital after training injury and will miss Six Nations trip to Italy as province prepare for business end of season 

WALKING WOUNDED: Ireland's Calvin Nash. Pic:  INPHO/Ben Brady

Munster face an anxious wait on Calvin Nash’s fitness after the wing was sent to Dublin’s St Vincent’s hospital for an assessment on an ankle injury sustained during Ireland training.

Nash had started his second game of the Guinness Six Nations campaign against France last Saturday but was replaced by a fit-again Mack Hansen for this Saturday’s final-round trip to Italy. Yet interim Ireland head coach Simon Easterby revealed on Thursday that the wing would not be a part of the squad travelling to Rome that afternoon due to an injury picked up in a training session at the IRFU High Performance Centre in west Dublin.