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Irish internationals Ian Henderson, Jacob Stockdale and Nick Timoney are all available for Ulster’s return to the United Rugby Championship on Friday against Benetton at Avidia Stadium (19:45 GMT).
The trio returned to club duty in the Autumn International Series finale this week as Richie Murphy’s men seek to return to winning ways following their 49-31 defeat to the Lions in South Africa in late October.
There is more good news on the injury front as Guarno Augustus and Cormac Izuchukwu are back in training and their progress will be monitored this week.
Augustus suffered a right arm injury in the 34-26 win over the Lions in the first leg of Ulster’s tour of South Africa last month and missed the Lions’ game.
Izuchukwu suffered a foot injury in Ulster’s last home game at URC – a 28-7 win over the Bulls – and missed the trip to South Africa as well as Ireland’s November internationals, but could return this week.
This news was tempered by confirmation that Ben Carson and Michael Lowry will miss this week with Carson sustaining a hamstring injury in Ulster A’s win over Connacht Eagles last Friday, while Lowry suffered an ankle injury during Ireland’s XV win over Spain three weeks ago.
Stuart McCloskey will also miss out with a thigh injury sustained in Ireland’s defeat by New Zealand in Chicago, joining Lorcan McLoughlin (elbow), Sean Revell (shoulder), Ben Moxham (knee), Ethan McIlroy (knee), Eric O’Sullivan (hamstring) and James McNaby (knee) on the sideline.
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