Leo Cullen: 'Great opportunity' ahead for Harry Byrne v Leicester

Leinster coach Leo Cullen believes Harry Byrne has a "great opportunity" to show what he's capable of, with Byrne set to start at out-half for the province in their Investec Champions Cup Pool 4 meeting with Leicester Tigers on Saturday.

The Leinster 10 jersey has been thrown around like a hot potato this season following the retirement of Johnny Sexton, with Harry and Ross Byrne, as well as Ciarán Frawley and Sam Prendergast all having started multiple games each at out-half.

That lack of cohesion has been dictated more by injury than a lack of clarity by the Leinster coach, who has seen the Byrne brothers and Frawley pick up in-game injuries.

Ross suffered an arm injury in their November win against Munster and hasn't featured since, while Harry picked up a concussion during the first half of their opening Champions Cup win at La Rochelle.

The younger of the Byrne brothers missed last week's win over Stade Francais with an ankle injury, with Frawley also getting injured in that game, getting a bang on the ribs which hasn't fully healed.

Luckily for Cullen, Harry's ankle injury wasn't a major issue, and he's been strapped up and brought back in for a seventh start of the season, giving him one last chance to catch the eye of Andy Farrell ahead of the Six Nations break.

"Harry has come back in and trained Thursday and will start, so it's a great opportunity for him after the disappointment of missing last week. Hopefully he goes well," Cullen said, after naming Byrne in his team to face the Leicester Tigers at Welford Road.

"Yeah, we've had an interesting couple of weeks with the 10s. Harry was unlucky after training for the majority of the week last week, he picked up an injury which meant Ciarán and Sam [Prendergast] got