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2nd January 2018
11:11am GMT

If Adeolokun keeps his footing he gives himself an excellent opportunity at scoring.
In the second-half O'Halloran once again steps into the line after a great break from Adeolokun.
The Ireland winger made great metres after pouncing on a cross kick before he was taken down metres away from the line. The Ulster defence was committed to defending around the ruck, and a couple of pick and drives later and O'Halloran calls for the ball before finding Jarrad Butler with a nice cutout pass.
Against Leinster on New Year's Day he found himself in a similar predicament where he had to step into the line on back-to-back plays with fly-half Jack Carty hovering beside him.
The pass is not the sharpest to inside centre Tom Farrell, but the Dubliner does very well to evade the challenge of Noel Reid before Connacht get a quick recycle and go again.
On the next phase, O'Halloran is then able to shift the ball quickly to Carty who puts a grubber kick in behind the defence to Rob Kearney who knocks the ball on under pressure.
It results in a big net gain for Connacht and caps off a nice passage of play for Kieran Keane's side.
Although he showed a lot of positive moments, O'Halloran did not have the perfect game against Leinster.
He knocked on from a kick off, he couldn't claim the high ball in a heavy collision with Fergus McFadden, and he almost got beaten on his inside by Johnny Sexton in the passage just before Max Deegan's opening try of the game.
Schmidt will have noted his mistakes but he has shown enough over these first two interprovincial derbies to warrant some serious consideration for next month's Six Nations.
He tackles hard, just ask Fergus McFadden. He chases open runners down, ask both Rob Kearney and Johnny McPhillips. And when he's in open play he looks to beat defenders and find his way to the line.
Joe Schmidt named four different players (Tommy Bowe, Andrew Trimble, Craig Gilroy and Andrew Conway) as the 23rd man in his Six Nations matchday squads last year.
Not one of those players recorded a try assist and Craig Gilroy was the only player to score in any of those matches, a hat-trick against an Italian side that had already conceded five tries by the time he hit the pitch.
Of the five tries Ireland scored against teams that weren't Italy, only one of those tries came in the last 20 minutes, Paddy Jackson's score in the opening game against Scotland.
Ireland need something different off the bench this year, and while there is a lot of competition for places, O'Halloran may be worth a shot in the latest season of Ireland's back-three carousel.Explore more on these topics: