The 35-year-old plans to play on with Leinster and Ireland:
CIAN HEALY IS heading into his fourth World Cup with Ireland but this won’t be the end of his international career. Not if he has anything to do with it.
“The body’s holding up well,” said Healy. “The odd Sunday it would be sore now but holding up alright.” Healy has a “little wall” hidden away in his house with medals and memories adorning it. It’s nice to walk past but he doesn’t spend time poring over what he’s done. There’s more to do. “I’m focused on being a very good loosehead at the moment,” said Healy. “That’s my main role so I’m not going too far away from it.
He’s not one to lead team meetings, but he enjoys working with the other props and hookers in a one-on-one setting.“If I have a feeling about something someone’s doing in a scrum that’s good or bad that can be worked on, I’ll probably pull them aside and have a chat and get on the tape and figure it out with them and figure out how they’re feeling,” he said.
“I never knew how it felt until I went against Ports [Andrew Porter] really, Ports and Ed Byrne. Ed scrummages kinda similar to me and he nearly took the neck off me. It’s good to have that bit of experience to be able to chat to them and maybe have an opinion that can further them.”
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