Murphy puts personal torment to one side

WHAT do you do when you’re recognised as one of the finest full-backs in rugby, yet you can’t get your place on your own national team?

Rubbing salt into that wound, what do you do when the man who is keeping you off that team is also your international room-mate?

Grin and bear it, that’s what, and that’s exactly what Geordan Murphy is doing these days, as Girvan Dempsey again gets the nod at full back on Sunday for the historic visit of France to Croke Park.