Munster

Some amount of talent! With the season now in its third week, we’ve put together a list of the best players in Ireland, 23 and younger, in the form of a match-day 23. Enjoy. Front row We had to get creative here by shifting Paddy McCarthy to tighthead. While the Leinster youngster has not started […]

1 week ago

They want more to be done. Munster CEO Ian Flanagan will step down from his role at the end of the month, after being in the job since 2019. He had come under increased scrutiny over the last year, given the province’s run of poor form since lifting the URC title in 2023. He also […]

1 week ago

Fascinating insights from POM. Peter O’Mahony became the latest ex-player to criticise the management of Munster rugby; first in extracts from his new autobiography, All In, and now from a revealing chat with the Irish Independent. Last year, former scrum-half Conor Murray made headlines when he lambasted the Munster hierarchy. When asked whether he felt […]

2 weeks ago

A quality signing it seems! The signing of Kieran Brookes was met with scepticism by some Munster supporters, earlier this year; and, indeed, the signing of a 36-year-old, who hadn’t played international rugby since 2016 – bar an appearance for the Barbarians – didn’t seem on par with the signing of hooker, and South Africa […]

2 weeks ago

Shocking stuff… Ahead of the release of his autobiography ‘All In’ – which comes out on September 24 – Peter O’Mahony detailed the contract negotiations as he entered into the last two seasons of his career with Munster and Ireland. At 34, he had just played in a World Cup quarter-final in October of 2023, […]

3 weeks ago

He was not at all pleased…. As expected, a strong Munster outfit put a big score against a seriously depleted Ulster team, beating them 41-14 at Thomond Park on Saturday. The result puts Munster up to fifth in the URC, after a hugely tumultuous few weeks, while Ulster are down to eighth, and just three […]

6 months ago