Healy and Porter help Tom O’Toole embrace challenge of switching sides

There are less intimidating places to hone one’s tradecraft than in front of a full house at Twickenham but Tom O’Toole is determined to embrace the challenge, with a little help from his friends, if the tighthead prop gets to pack down on the other side of the front row on Saturday.

Ireland’s underdog tag going into this round-three Guinness Six Nations clash is underlined by the injury crisis at loosehead prop, with Andrew Porter, Paddy McCarthy and Jack Boyle all absent through injury. 

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