A week in the life...

From Peppa Pig to books on psychology, Munster’s James Coughlan explains to Michael Moynihan the importance of downtime between high intensity matches

JAMES COUGHLAN sits down with his coffee and nods at the first question. He and his Munster colleagues face Brive away in their Amlin Cup quarter-final this weekend, but Saturday's win over Leinster is still fresh in the memory.

“In the first half we let ourselves down a bit but we redeemed ourselves in the second half - that's the intensity we need to be at.”