Munster milestones come quicker since Lenihan bowed out

What Munster Rugby’s latest Hall of Fame inductee would have given to have played more than 100 times for his province.

Munster milestones come quicker since Lenihan bowed out

What Munster Rugby’s latest Hall of Fame inductee would have given to have played more than 100 times for his province.

The opportunity, pre-professionalism and before the creation of either Europe’s Heineken Cup or a Celtic League, was never there for Donal Lenihan, the Ireland and Lions lock retiring as a player two years before the game at the top level shed its amateur skin.

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