Captain O’Mahony relishing prospect of return to action

It’s been 32 days since Peter O’Mahony last played a game of competitive rugby and over 50 will have passed by the time he gets to bridge that gap back to the oh-so-close Heineken Cup semi-final against Clermont Auvergne.

To put that into context, rugby’s off-season isn’t nearly as long, but the Munster man insists that appetite or preparedness will not be in question when Ireland come to take on the USA in Houston next Saturday week.

“It’s been tough,” he admitted yesterday at Carton House. “We haven’t been doing nothing. We had a couple of days off but we had a bit of a mini-pre-season and the Connacht and Munster guys have met up a couple of times in Limerick to do a bit of training.