Rising star O’Malley happy to bide his time at Leinster

AFTER a frustrating year when medics struggled to get to the root of a hip problem, one of Leinster’s rising young stars, Eoin O’Malley, has learned the art of patience.

It’s just as well given the former Belvedere College, Irish under-19 and under-20 player is eyeing a place in the Leinster side currently held by one of the world’s greatest – Brian O’Driscoll.

And even to settle for a place alongside the Irish captain, he would have to dislodge none other than O’Driscoll’s Irish partner and fellow Lion Gordon D’Arcy.