Galvanising influence needs to take command in Munster dressing room

It will not be the first time that Munster players have arrived in the Meath town of Enfield to be told some home truths. Yet for the province’s seven players called in to Ireland’s 24-hour training camp at Johnstown House, which disbanded yesterday afternoon, the soul-searching will have been prompted from within rather than externally.

It is eight years since a 22-year-old Rob Kearney stood up in an Ireland team meeting in Enfield and asked why Munster players did not bring the intensity they delivered in red to the green of their national side.

So many seasons down the line and the question might be asked in reverse.