Peter Jackson: Two new Irish world-beaters a small consolation

Neither Felix Jones nor Jean Kleyn were Munster born or bred but the Red Army will claim that the province made them what they are.

ME AND MR JONES: South Africa assistant coach Felix Jones (centre right) celebrates after the game. INPHO/Dan Sheridan

For the last 20 years, Irish rugby has had to make do with laying claim to a pair of World Cup winners: one clad in all-black, the other in all-white.

John Gallagher and Kyran Bracken, the former raised amongst an Irish community in south London by parents from Derry and Limerick; the latter a dentist’s son from Dublin who moved to Liverpool with his family at the age of four.