CJ Stander: ‘When I was six, my dad ran over me with the truck. That was worse than this’

CJ Stander is well used to picking himself up, dusting himself off and starting all over again and this Sunday against France will be no exception for the Ireland No. 8.

He has been doing it since he was six, when he went to school a day after an unfortunate collision with a pick-up truck driven by his father on the family farm in George, South Africa. Now, five weeks on from fracturing an eye socket and cheekbone against England, the Munster back-rower will do it again at Aviva Stadium when he rejoins the Guinness Six Nations championship in the fourth and penultimate round.