When cool Dan Leavy had the fright of his life

Joe Schmidt spoke yesterday about how some of his players might have been spooked during Ireland’s World Cup quarter-final defeat to Argentina in 2015, but Dan Leavy doesn’t fit the bill as the type to take fright on the field.

“Nah. I don’t think I would be,” he said. “I’m very jumpy if someone jumps out, like, to scare me in a different scenario. Anything like that I’m very, very jumpy, but in terms of before a game? No, I wouldn’t be.”

It’s a good thing for Leinster and Ireland, then, that he’s never been required to take a seat on a ghost train, but he did backtrack on his stance that rugby had never put the frighteners on him.