Heartbreak for Henshaw as injury forces him out of Argentina tour

Connacht’s Robbie Henshaw has been ruled out of Ireland’s summer tour of Argentine due to injury.

Connacht Rugby has confirmed that the 20-years-old back aggravated an existing hand injury in training, and the Athlone man has been withdrawn from the two-test tour in June.

“Henshaw sustained the injury earlier in the season and it had not limited his ability to train or play. He exacerbated the injury in training this week and further specialist advice has recommended that surgical repair of the damaged ligaments should not be delayed further,” it said in a statement.

Henshaw, who has three Ireland caps, had hoped to use the tour as a springboard onto the national team ahead of the next Six Nations and 2015 World Cup in England.

The only other Connacht player on the plane to Argentina is scrum-half Kieran Marmion, who is looking to earn his first cap for Ireland.

Marmion was on the summer tour of US last year but was the only player in the squad not to get game-time.