‘Liberated’ Kearney can get on with the game

A miserable oul’ morning, said Rob Kearney after yesterday’s training session amidst the misty drizzle at Carton House and yet the message to emerge from the full-back’s media duties was that of clarity.

In all sorts of ways.

This time last year the Leinster back sat a few rooms away and gave apolitically savvy interview about his still-to-be-decided contract situation and the appeal of France in the days after Jonathan Sexton’s switch to Paris.