Fitness the start point in Paul O'Connell's Ireland pack vision

Paul O’Connell has challenged his Ireland forwards to be relentless in their pursuit of excellence ahead of a testing November window that sees the squad face top opposition four weeks in a row in the Nations Championship.

Andy Farrell’s squad has just recently sat down and teased out their ambitions, as well as the ways and means that they intend to meet them. They had already met for a one-day mini-camp back in July just to start that process early, to hit the ground running.

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