Club rugby has vibrant future, says Horan

IRELAND prop Marcus Horan has given the thumbs up to the All Ireland League as the ideal mechanism for developing international players of the future.

At a time when there is an element of doom and gloom within the clubs since provincial rugby has taken a firm hold of the game, Horan believes the club scene still has a vibrant future.

Although from a GAA background, Horan is an established rugby international and attributes a lot of his success to the emergence of Keith Wood as an international class hooker.