Irish Lion Sean O’Brien could have played for Carlow, says John Murphy

John Murphy is laughing. He knows how physically big this Carlow side can be considered but then he knows they could be bigger if Sean O’Brien had taken a different playing career path.

Murphy grew up with the Leinster and Ireland rugby player, who is all but sure of taking in this evening’s game against Dublin somewhere in Whangarei on the north island New Zealand where he is currently based with the Lions.

Just who might O’Brien, who has rehabbed training with Carlow in the past, have marked?