Heaslip accepts Pape apology after knee to the back

Jamie Heaslip has accepted Pascal Pape's Twitter apology for the crude knee to the back that could end the Ireland No.

8's Six Nations campaign.



France lock Pape faces a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday where he could be banned for the remainder of the tournament after kneeing Heaslip in the back during Ireland's 18-11 victory in Dublin.



The 34-year-old will discover his fate at a disciplinary hearing in London, and put in an advance move to curry favour with the panel by apologising to Leinster's Heaslip on social media.



Heaslip suffered three fractured vertebrae in his back from …