Healy has been left out of his country’s 33-man squad and is facing up to 10 weeks on the sidelines due to a calf issue.
Munster loosehead Jeremy Loughman will fill the void, with head coach Farrell holding faint hope of Healy possibly being fit to feature in the latter stages of the tournament.
“We’ll see how his rehab goes during it, you’d never know towards the back end if he could be a replacement or not.“It’s devastating, isn’t it? That’s sport, that’s life, that’s rugby. Cian’s big enough and old enough and experienced enough to be through these type of things before. “The prognosis is something between five, six to 10 weeks. How that rehab carries on is something that we’ll keep a track of as we go.”
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