IRFU will help Johann van Graan like they did Leo Cullen

IRFU Performance Director David Nucifora backed Johann van Graan as the right man to take Munster forward and pledged to surround the head coach with experience and support in the province’s new-look backroom staff.

Munster are still reeling from the second season in succession that has ended in European and Guinness PRO14 semi-final defeats while also searching for new assistant coaches following the rejection of new contract offers by forwards coach Jerry Flannery and backline and attack coach Felix Jones.