Giving back: Leinster’s Ross Byrne on supporting the Simon Community

AS a boy Ross Byrne was rarely seen without a rugby ball in his hand. Being motivated to play was never an issue for the Dubliner since he first took up the sport at the age of five or six, a passion that was cultivated in the rugby-playing schools he attended.

“In St Michael’s I played the whole way up and then in Old Belvedere I played club rugby on a Sunday. I was pretty much always keen to play.”