Payne has the last laugh with career high at Munster

SHAUN PAYNE has been the butt of enough jokes to last a lifetime. There are Irish jokes, English jokes and South African jokes, always tongue-in-cheek, always meant to keep him in check and typical of the Munster ‘Bhoys’.

Payne is a married man, a father of one Welsh born child called Dylan but preparing himself for the birth of another child, in Ireland.

"This one will certainly be fully Irish," said the centre/full-back/wing who wants, ultimately to play for Ireland.