Reds jet out to Lanzarote training camp

THE Munster squad, minus its senior internationals, yesterday flew out to Lanzarote for a week-long warm-weather training camp.

The recent cold snap has affected squad sessions with the pro set-up regularly forced to change venues because of frozen grounds, but the Reds aren’t expected to encounter such problems at their Club La Santa base on the north-west coast of the island.

The 19 players who departed Shannon yesterday will be joined by a further nine tomorrow and Sunday: both Brian Carney and James Coughlan are involved with the Ireland Sevens squad; Donnacha Ryan, Niall Ronan and Barry Murphy are in the Ireland A squad for tonight’s clash with Scotland A, while Tom Gleeson, Timmy Ryan, Darragh Hurley (Cork Con) and Nick Williams (Dolphin) play their AIB Cup quarter-final tie at Musgrave Park tomorrow.