Summer signings set for Munster debuts as Van Graan names first team of new season

Munster supporters will get a first opportunity to see summer signings Mike Haley and Neil Cronin in action when Johann van Graan’s side kick off their pre-season campaign against Declan Kidney’s London Irish side at Musgrave Park this evening (7.30pm).

By naming a 30-man matchday squad, head coach van Graan is planning to field a different team in each half on the newly modified 3G playing surface. Former Sale Sharks full-back Haley, one of around 15 Munster players called into a 50-man Ireland mini-training camp in Kildare during the week, and scrum-half Cronin, signed after a stellar AIL season with Garryowen, are named among the replacements and primed for second-half debuts.