How Leona Maguire pep talk blew away Irish rugby squad

'You always know by the time a guest speaker gets up to leave, how many of the players will go over to ask a question that they didn’t want to in front of everybody - and there was a queue for Leona. It was brilliant'

IMPRESSIVE: Leona Maguire wowed the Irish rugby squad when she gave them a pep talk at Cartoon House.

VINNY Hammond, Ireland's head of analysis, has praised the impact of one of the country's golf stars on the Ireland rugby squad as he described a recent visit to the IRFU High Performance Centre.

“We had Leona Maguire come into us in the Ireland camp during the Six Nations to speak to the players and she just came in and chatted literally before a gym session, nice and informal, but she was one of the best speakers we’ve had in the last 10 years.