Not what the Ireland head coach needs, at all, right now. On Monday, Andy Farrell and Ireland captain Peter O’Mahony will be at the Six Nations launch, at Dublin’s Guinness Storehouse. Both men will be fielding questions on injuries after a bruising Champions Cup weekend. Ireland are already without Mack Hansen, Jimmy O’Brien and Dave […]

2 years ago

“I had no idea. It was such a weird build-up. Over the last few years, with injuries and all that, I was really nervous.” Conor Murray making the British & Irish Lions squad – now that it has happened for a third time – is one of those occurrences that, in retrospect, seem inevitable. In […]

5 years ago

“Don’t lose faith; stick together.” It is not often that you get to sit with one of Ireland’s best players for 20 minutes and just pick his brains on the game. Conor Murray did not disappoint. As we walk into the basement room to set up for our interview, Conor Murray is crammed into a […]

7 years ago

Just another reason to love Conor Murray. Despite the fact that Munster’s Conor Murray couldn’t take any part in the Autumn Internationals due to a neck injury, the sensational scrum-half wasn’t going to be left out of the celebrations. As we all saw, Murray kicked every ball and cheered every tackle/try/conversion from his seat during Ireland’s […]

7 years ago

It wasn’t that long ago that Irish rugby was viewed as being in a bad place. Having won the Six Nations in 2014 & 2015, Ireland went into the World Cup with legitimate hopes of reaching a first ever semi final. After topping Pool D, Ireland faced into a quarter final clash with genuine minnows […]

8 years ago

It was not an easy answer for Conor Murray to give but he did not shirk the task. When he was up in Dublin – as part of Pinergy’s #WeAre16 campaign – Murray spoke extremely well about why he had spurned offers to play Top 14 rugby in France and committed to Munster for three more […]

8 years ago