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Something for the weekend: Cian Healy expected to return for Glasgow clash

The defending champions – including the Ireland prop – trained at Donnybrook this morning, in the wake of their 16-all draw in Montpellier on Saturday.

LEINSTER ARE HOPEFUL Cian Healy will be fit for their second Heineken Cup game against Glasgow this weekend.

The defending champions – including the Ireland prop – trained at Donnybrook this morning, in the wake of their 16-all draw in Montpellier on Saturday.

The team will be named on Friday and with Healy now in the mix having recovered from a glute injury, there are no major injury concerns.

“It was a bitter-sweet mood in the dressing-room afterwards because we feel as though we had opportunities to win the game, but we weren’t as clinical as we needed to be,” said head coach Joe Schmidt, when reflecting on the game in France.

“Credit to Montpellier who displayed real aggression throughout the game and competed for everything. They were a real handful at the breakdown and scrambled very well in defence. They’re a good side who are likely to have a big say in the Pool alongside Glasgow and Bath who were impressive on Sunday afternoon.

And Schmidt is expecting to face a tough test against the Scottish outfit.

“Glasgow is a vastly improved side who have now won five games in a row and we know that we’ll have our work cut out. We know them well and they’ll travel to the RDS on Sunday with confidence having defeated us here earlier this season in the PRO12.

“They’ll take great heart from their rousing late victory over Bath where they displayed great heart to fight back and get the win.”

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