‘Killer’ enjoying turbulent adventure

Munster forward David Kilcoyne has come a very long way in a very short space of time.

There may not have been enough time in a whirlwind season of Heineken Cup debuts and first Test caps for Dave Kilcoyne to bask but such has been the turbulent nature of the team experience, with both Munster and Ireland, that the prop has lingered long enough to learn some valuable lessons.

Personal achievement and rapid development are tricky subjects to discuss when wider, collective objectives are not being reached. Areticence to speak of individual satisfaction and career progression is understandable when one’s province has just slumped to its heaviest defeat in nine years. Yet for 24-year-old Dave Kilcoyne, in the initial year of his first senior contract with Munster, the dichotomy also offers perspective.