Donnacha Ryan always up for a challenge

Thankfully Munster and Ireland second-row forward Donnacha Ryan isn’t a man to shirk a challenge.

Twenty-four hours before Ryan and his team-mates host Leinster at a sold-out Thomond Park, the big Nenagh man will be heading for Lough Derg to partake in a chilly Christmas Day tradition.

He revealed: “We’ll go to mass, have dinner and then go for a swim in Lough Derg. It’s just a thing we do in the local town. Sometimes there is a nice hot port there! We get changed in the back of a van so it’s very posh!