To Heaven or to Connacht?

Facing a stark choice of bench-warming for Munster or a new experience and rugby education in the south of France, which do you think Timmy Ryan chose? Ahead of tonight’s clash with Connacht, he spoke to Michael Moynihan

TIMMY RYAN’S old pals in the Munster squad better look away now. As they trudge around a muddy University of Limerick pitch, or squelch through the puddles in The Farm in Cork, their pal sees the Mediterranean when he unwinds.

“For the last couple of months it was okay,” says Ryan of the climate in his new home, in Toulon, south of France.