Captain Peter O’Mahony encouraged by new Munster recruits

Munster’s summer signings may still be in the process of getting to know their new team-mates but, after a pre-season training camp in Cork last week, captain Peter O’Mahony is convinced they can help the province challenge for long-awaited silverware.

It was less than four months ago when a dejected O’Mahony sat in Bordeaux’s Stade Chaban-Delmas raking over the coals of a second successive Champions Cup semi-final defeat and declaring he was sick of taking lessons from such losses.