Hayes creates European history

MUNSTER’S favourite prop stepped into the history books in the only way he knew how — quietly.

John Hayes, amid the white heat of the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final in Brive on Saturday, created European rugby history when he became the first player to play 100 competitive games.

The Dromsally, Cappamore native came on as a 58th-minute replacement and also became just the fourth Munster player to win 200 caps for a province he first represented in August 1997.