How Wasps Rugby Club released David Breen to Na Piarsaigh for the Munster final

David Breen knew that his role in the snowballing success story that is Na Piarsaigh’s senior hurling team was in the lap of the gods when he moved to England to start work as a first-team physiotherapist with Wasps Rugby Club.

For two years he had managed to juggle his day job with Leinster Rugby and his own playing ambitions with the Limerick outfit, but relocating to Coventry was a much more complicated ask and it remained to be seen what his new employers would make of it all.

They understood implicitly.