Bernard Jackman - the Grenoble head coach who played for Connacht when they defeated the Top 14 side in 2005 - was Healy's coach at Dublin City University long before he was making hay in the Guinness PRO12, but the scrum-half turned winger, has continued to impress the former Ireland hooker.
Healy, who was scored nine tries in 18 league starts this season, has been a vital cog in the men from Galway's rise to second in the Guinness PRO12 and was exceptional from full-back on Saturday - he scored once and his fleet of foot led to Robbie Henshaw's score.
And though Connacht fell to Jonathan Wisniewski's late drop goal in a 33-32 loss, Jackman thinks Healy's form is both deserving of an international call-up and a credit to Pat Lam's coaching.
Lam's men have three Guinness PRO12 fixtures remaining, with Munster arriving at the Sportsground on Saturday and Glasgow Warriors on the final weekend, and with Healy flying, a top four finish looks likely, while a spot on the plane South Africa for the superb winger could follow.
Lam's fliers profiting from grounded approach
Lam has removed the Connacht shackles this season and when they opened up a 19-3 lead, it looked as though their free-flowing approach might blow the Frenchmen away.
After 13 minutes the exceptional Bundee Aki threw a perfectly timed, lofted cut out-pass that sent Healy careering into space and few people who have followed Connacht this season would have been surprised to see Healy execute his pass perfectly under pressure and send Niyi Adeolokun under the sticks.
Connacht's players tout regularly that Lam's back-to-basics approach to skills training has been of huge benefit to their all-round game and it was glaringly obvious here.
A huge opportunity - so early in the game - could easily have been squandered, but instead Adeolokun galloped in for a fine score.
Adeolokun was again the benefactor as Healy danced through the Grenoble line and delivered a pin-point pass for a third Connacht try. The Nigerian-born winger is another being tipped by Jackman for an Ireland call-up and whether or not this materialises, his lethal combination with Healy could prove vital for Connacht as the Guinness PRO12 comes to a crescendo.
Lewis Evans - fortune favours the bold
While Guinness PRO12 high-flyers Connacht suffered in France, tenth-placed Dragons got the better of reigning Challenge Cup champions Gloucester on their own patch and it was the bold decision of their stand-in captain that ultimately sealed a famous victory.
Dragons had endured a difficult run of league form and were without a win in seven, but Lewis Evans harnessed the Japanese World Cup spirit to turn down a kickable three points that would have drawn them level with the English side.
He opted instead to kick for the corner and was rewarded when replacement scrum-half Charlie Davies muscled over from short range to dump out the Cherry and Whites.
Both their league position and their semi-final draw against a star-studded Montpellier side - marshalled by Francois Steyn, with Bismarck and Jannie Du Plessis in the front-row and the exceptional Fulgence Ouedraogo their skipper - are daunting.
But as Davies pointed out and the Du Plessis brothers will testify to, upsets can happen and in Saturday's Man of the Match Taulupe Faletau, Tyler Morgan and the red-hot Hallam Amos, they have more than enough fire-power to do just that.
In the Guinness PRO12, they have a chance to finish with a flourish and with fixtures against play-off contenders Scarlets and Champions Cup chasing Blues, they will enter the league's final phase full of confidence and relishing the prospect of turning over their Welsh rivals.
The Joneses - Dragons' men for the big occasion:
Though Davies was the man to cross for what was the Dragons crucial score, the father and son team of Dorian and Kingsley Jones were crucial in the Welsh region's superb performance.
Jones rightly pointed to the influence of absent Director of Rugby Lyn Jones - the former Ospreys head honcho was absent with a stomach illness - but the head coach deserves serious credit for stepping into the void for such a huge fixture and eliciting a performance ram-packed full of spirit.
The players clearly had no qualms in grafting their hearts out for former Gloucester captain Jones, none more so than son Dorian who turned up well against the Cherry and Whites with a decisive 15 points from the tee.
In the only Guinness PRO12 action of the week. . . Warriors title-defence continues to gather pace with bonus point at Zebre
Glasgow Warriors, masters of the sprint finish?
Glasgow's performance against Zebre was for the second time in two weeks a microcosm of their season as a whole.
Townsend's men battled back from a seven-point half-time deficit to score 36 unanswered points, claim a bonus-point win and move into third in the Guinness PRO12 - just two points behind first and second-placed Leinster and Connacht.
With two of their three fixtures against top-four opposition - Connacht and Scarlets - Townsend is delighted their fate is in their own hands and like they did against Zebre, the way they have reversed their fortunes has been something to behold.
Glasgow reached the league's mid-point with just five wins and a draw, but since losing to Ulster in round 12, they are unbeaten in seven and seem a fair bet for a semi-final, though whether or not that will be at Scotstoun remains to be seen.
What stands out is that Townsend changed nine players from the bonus-point win against Benetton Treviso the week before, even omitting player of the Six nations Stuart Hogg, who was the match-winner in their crucial fixture against Ulster in round 16.
As the season reaches its climax, the Warriors' impressive depth and ability to rest players will stand them in excellent stead.
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