Keatley looks to bright future as new era starts for Munster

Ian Keatley will start at out-half for Munster in their Guinness PRO12 opener at home to Edinburgh tonight (KO: 7.35pm) nursing the same injury he had to manage throughout the last campaign.

“It’s a tricky injury,” he said. “It is pretty much bruising of the pubic bone. You can think that it goes, and it comes back whenever. I have tried to manage it as best I can, but you still want to do a good pre-season.

“I haven’t missed anything over pre-season which is good because that sets you up for the season fitness-wise and strength-wise. It is still a little bit at me, but I know I can manage it, like I did at the end of last season.”