He was one of Leinster's top performers at the start of the season before suffering an injury and Tommy O'Brien is determined to get back into the swing of things.
The 25-year-old scored in their first three games before damaging his ankle against the Dragons in November. O'Brien returned at the start of the year, making three appearances, including two off the bench in Champions Cup wins over Stade Francais and Leicester.
The flying winger's next chance comes in a top of the table clash with Benetton in the BKT URC tomorrow at the RDS (3pm, live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player).
"I was really enjoying my run of games at the start of the year, a couple of lads were off at the World Cup and got a bit of time off," said the former Blackrock College student.
"So, I started the first four games and then picked up an ankle injury, but once you play a few games you get a bit of confidence, you see things a little earlier and thankfully the injury was only five or six weeks and I was back for the Ulster game and then on the bench for the two Champions Cup games.
"They're the games you want to be involved in, I want to push and start some of those games, but it's been good and I'm looking forward to the next run of games too.
"I've a very good support network between my family, my girlfriend and I'd be very friendly with the guys in here and would have friends outside rugby as well.
"I talked to Garry [Ringrose] a couple of years ago and there are ones you can control like soft tissue, you can get annoyed at yourself for those kind of things and wonder if there's something you could have done.
"Then there's others when you play rugby, you get injuries - a broken leg or, with me someone landed on my ankle and I'm out for six weeks.
"Those things happen, you can't do anything about that.
"It's control the controllables, make sure my body's in the best shape it could be and don't pick up soft tissue injuries. It's rugby, if you pick up a knock then c'est la vie, I guess.
"[We play] Treviso at the weekend and there's no Six Nations so all eyes will be on the URC and I'm looking forward to that.
"[It's] always good playing in the RDS, finger's crossed we get some good weather, it's been rough the last little while, so if we can play a bit of attacking rugby it will suit the wingers a little bit more."
Since making his debut in 2019, the former schools 110m hurdles champion has racked up 31 appearances and scored nine tries.
"I loved athletics in school unfortunately I was never Irish champion - I got second, so that still cuts me deep," he adds.
"I loved it, did it all through school and I broke my leg in sixth year, so didn't get to do it then, but it definitely crossed over into the rugby.
"Speed-wise, I think I've the fastest speed this year on the GPS this year anyway.
"I got a decent speed when we played against the Lions a couple of years ago, it was a cover tackle and I got to 10.7 metres per second.
"I haven't been timed over 100 metres, which I'd like to see what I could do, but some decent times thankfully.
"Hopefully, I can show that at the weekend."
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