Trimble keeps focus on national service

First Brian McLaughlin, now Tony McGahan.

Different circumstances, certainly, but news of the imminent departures from Ulster and Munster could have hardly come at a less opportune juncture in the season for DeclanKidney, who could do without any and all distractions right now.

News of McGahan’s return to Australia broke only hours after thenational team’s media duties were completed earlier this week but provincial ructions should have no ill effects on matters if Andrew Trimble’s testimony is anything to go by.