The Munster centre went off for a Head Injury Assessment after the collision but did not return to the game. Sam Arnold was rightly rewarded for his form over the past 15 months by getting a call-up to the Ireland squad. The former Ulster centre has settled in nicely in Limerick after a bumpy start, […]

8 years ago

Ireland are Grand Slam winners, Leinster are European champions and we’ll have at least one Irish province in the PRO14 final. Irish Rugby is in a good space. Leinster will be aiming for a historic double later this month to add to their Champions Cup win while Munster will be desperate to finish their season […]

8 years ago

Andrew Conway got the headlines for “crucifying” Toulon at Thomond Park but there was a great appreciation from the French media for Munster’s unheralded backline. Toulon fans may not have taken their full away day allocation of seats, but the travelling hordes of French press certainly filled their fair share of seats. Many of those […]

8 years ago

The raw stats will tell you that Sam Arnold and Rory Scannell combined for 20 tackles, two turnovers, 15 carries and 71 metres gained. Munster players, coaches and fans will tell you they brought so much more. Arnold and Scannell partnered each other in Europe for the first time, against Castres, in January. Saturday at […]

8 years ago

Munster have re-signed the promising quartet of Sammy Arnold, Darren O’Shea, Conor Oliver and Dan Goggin to two-year contracts that will see them remain with the province until June 2020. Arnold, who joined the province at the start of the 2016-17 season, endured a number of injury set-backs in his first year but impressed mightily in […]

8 years ago

Joe Schmidt handed out 14 Ireland debuts in 2017. We are looking at some of the bright talents that are best placed to make a breakthrough in 2018. This time last year, we tipped Adam Byrne, Jacob Stockdale, Darren Sweetnam and James Ryan to make their Ireland breakthroughs, and while the likes of Stockdale and Ryan […]

8 years ago