Whereas Porter has performed on each the free and the tight for Eire, Healy has the excellence of getting appeared proper throughout the front-row, having been pressed into emergency motion at hooker towards Scotland within the Six Nations of 2023.
Eire scrum coach John Fogarty nonetheless marvels at how he held his personal in a brand new place at Murrayfield.
“The day we performed towards Scotland I am in panic mode, as a result of the 2 hookers go down and we’re asking Cian to enter hooker, not understanding what is going on to occur.
“However he is clear in his thoughts he’ll be aggressive.
“To step into a world rugby sport as a hooker, it says a lot about him – we obtained two scrum penalties that day.”
Fogarty calls Healy “distinctive” for possessing the bodily attributes to succeed on both aspect of the scrum even at worldwide degree.
“He has a capability at loose-head to get to a very good hip peak so he can launch into tight-heads, however he is obtained the general power and the hip power as a tight-head meaning he can keep in a great sturdy place to place strain on a loose-head.
“He is obtained a spread of talents however what connects them is his mentality.
“He is an distinctive man, is not he? His mindset, his mentality, is completely different to the bulk. He is an unimaginable competitor and that units him aside.”
“Distinctive” is Porter’s selection of adjective too, though on this case referring to Healy’s character, whereas each he and Fogarty agree additional on the truth that, even at 37-years-old, there are a number of extra caps to come back.
“He is positively a singular character,” Porter added.
“He is an enormous asset to each Leinster and Eire and he’ll proceed to be, it is not his final sport.
“He is an ideal fella and it is nice to have the ability to share the day with him. Hopefully he can push that on and add a number of extra to it.”
