Keith Earls: Social side of rugby is a thing of past

Rugby still a social sport? Forget that, says Keith Earls.

Earls’ father Ger played for Young Munster and Munster, worked his socks off and, like all of his colleagues, probably partied a bit as well, but with his own money.

When the senior member of the family scored a sensational try to give his local club their first and only All-Ireland League title in 1993, there weren’t too many sober heads inside or outside the squad for many days in the vicinity of Limerick’s famous Yellow Road.