Peter O’Mahony: ‘What we’ve lost now that he’s gone is incredible’

Munster captain Peter O’Mahony has insisted Saturday’s emotionally-charged European tie with Glasgow Warriors is not about anything else but Anthony Foley’s grieving family.

O’Mahony and his team-mates will somehow summon up the courage to fulfil their Champions Cup pool fixture at Thomond Park, 24 hours after Foley, their friend, mentor and head coach, is buried in his native Killaloe, having died suddenly from a heart- related condition last Sunday in Paris.

The Munster squad and management will attend Friday’s funeral and pushing aside his own grief at the tragic loss of the 42-year-old, O’Mahony said Foley’s wife Olive and their two young sons Tony and Dan were the priority, not Munster Rugby.