‘I don’t think I’ve been 100% for a game in 10 years’

Frustrated by injury and overlooked by the Lions, Munster’s Denis Leamy has plenty of incentives at Croke Park today. He spoke to Charlie Mulqueen.

PRIOR to Tomás O’Leary’s heart-rending injury at Musgrave Park last Friday, there is little doubt that Denis Leamy had fully earned the tag of Ireland’s Unluckiest Player of the season.

Between serious knocks to his shoulders and knee, he spent far too much time in operating rooms and rehab facilities and not enough on the training ground and the field of play. Consequently, he struggled to keep his place in the back-row of the Irish scrum and that led to his omission from the Lions touring party to South Africa when he had looked a banker before the season began.