Murphy glad to be in the Red

IT HAS been a whirlwind few months for new Munster signing Johne Murphy.

Murphy, who is in line to appear in Munster’s Magners League opener against Aironi in Cork on Saturday, had hardly been given time to consider how he would cope with leaving behind a host of friends at Leicester Tigers and parking some great memories than he was named in the Irish team to meet the Barbarians at Thomond Park on June 4.

A further bonus was being included in Declan Kidney’s Irish squad to tour New Zealand and Australia, a trip on which he appeared again in the Irish shirt against the New Zealand Maori.