BIG MATCH DIET? Coffee and autographs

“Not everyone is going around with a white face in the dressing room, though some lads get very quiet alright” is Tomás O’Leary’s description of a big match dressing room. And he’s been in a few. The Munster scrum-half spoke to Michael Moynihan

BY the time the smallest boy got to the top of the queue, in the bar of a Cork hotel, he’d realised his mistake. A basic planning error, but it jeopardised the entire mission.

“Sorry,” he said, “I’ve no paper.”