No change of Hart for James about coming back from France

James Hart has held his head commendably high, and never complained, even though he has suffered many frustrations, since he turned his back on a rugby career in France to try his luck back home in Ireland.

The 26-year-old Dubliner, who has an Irish father and French mother, learned the game at Belvedere College and then moved on to Clontarf. He was showing enough promise to attract attention from France and it was an easy decision to move there, once Leinster didn’t demonstrate sufficient interest.

After spells with Grenoble and Racing 92, the scrum-half returned home, last summer, to join Munster, even though the world-class Conor Murray was fully established as the side’s number-one scrum-half.