O’Mahony ready for another hard fight

We have learned enough about Peter O’Mahony by now to know that he will not make a song and dance about the physical demands of playing top-flight Heineken Cup and Test rugby.

Even when the body is asked to put together back-to-back performances of such a high intensity — as was the case when Ireland faced Wales and England within eight days of each other — that five of his team-mates have failed to make it into round three of this year’s RBS 6 Nations, the Munster back row merely shrugs his shoulders, dusts himself off and prepares diligently to face Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday.

“Every game you’re battered, and they’re back-to-back ones, it’s tough,” O’Mahony said. “It’s professional rugby, you’ve got to get on with it.