O’Mahony can park business to invest emotion in Munster cause

Munster captain Peter O’Mahony will put province before personal business while his future is being decided over the next few weeks, writes Simon Lewis.

O’Mahony, 28, has found himself as an unwanted centre of attention for the past week since details of his contract wrangle with the IRFU over a new deal beyond next June were leaked to the media, along with the additional information that clubs in England and France were more than happy to offer the Ireland flanker a whole lot more to leave these shores.

Scrum-half Conor Murray indicated yesterday that he thought his Munster, Ireland and Lions team-mates O’Mahony and fellow back-rower CJ Stander would stay with the province at which they made their names, but the decisions of Donnacha Ryan and Simon Zebo to leave for France in successive seasons has changed the landscape somewhat.