“I’d like to see a bit more of Ireland this summer.” Fineen Wycherley is eager to see more of the place whenever his never-ending season finally does wrap, but he may have to wait a while longer. Gavin Coombes too. Around this time last year, SportsJOE caught up with Wycherley down at his parents’ place […]

5 years ago

“It’s a different part of the country down there, like!” Fineen Wycherley has been keeping it Cork for the past three months and has settled back into the relaxed way of things in the West of the West. Fineen and Josh, his younger brother, packed up their Munster gear, back in March, and headed home […]

6 years ago

One hopes the latest comeback is his last in a long stretch. Sean O’Brien is back training, and in full training too. The Carlow native has been out of action since breaking his arm against Argentina in November. Two months on and he is back in the selection mix for Leinster ahead of a game […]

7 years ago

Leinster captain Johnny Sexton was penalised in the opening minutes of the PRO14 champions’ trip to Thomond Park on Saturday for retaliating to a tackle from Munster flanker Fineen Wycherley. Wycherley nailed Sexton after he had passed the ball and the Ireland fly-half reacted angrily to his tackle and appeared to rip his headgear off before […]

7 years ago

The Munster head coach is normally a glass half full kind of guy. On Friday night in Glasgow, the South African was as surly and downbeat as we have seen him in his nine months in charge at Munster. It was only two games into the Guinness PRO14 season but van Graan knew the importance […]

8 years ago

Munster have re-signed forwards Billy Holland, Stephen Archer and Kevin O’Byrne to new deals while academy players Liam O’Connor, Fineen Wycherley and Calvin Nash have also committed to the province. Holland, Archer and O’Byrne have all penned a two-year deals to remain with the province until June 2020. Academy prop O’Connor will move to a two-year […]

8 years ago