The centre was a late withdrawal from the bench for yesterday's record 82-8 victory over Romania as Andy Farrell's side got their World Cup underway with a bang
Robbie Henshaw is expected to be available for Ireland's second Rugby World Cup pool game against Tonga in Nantes on Saturday night.
Speaking this morning, Ireland defence coach Simon Easterby said that Henshaw is on course to be fit for the Tonga encounter. "The way that they’ve worked over the last few weeks in particular, at the moment we’re in pretty good shape.” Rob Herring started in the number two jersey against Romania before Ronan Kelleher, who wasn't involved in the warm-up series, came on for the Ulster man."We’ll certainly assess more people today and tomorrow. It’s usually the case that things are maybe flagged 24, 48 hours sometimes after a game as opposed to straight after the night of the game.
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