‘My grandmother ran up the road and forced her way into Thomond Park’

It won’t prompt an update from the AA Roadwatch team but the steady traffic of players switching provinces will continue this summer on the back of IRFU performance director David Nucifora’s vision to maximise the playing pool.

Jack McGrath will add to the ‘blue brigade’ up in Belfast and Bill Johnston joins him there from Munster. Cian Kelleher returns to Dublin after a three-year stint at the Sportsground and Nick McCarthy will swap Leinster for lodgings in Limerick. It’s a cross-pollination this is set to intensify in the years to come but Craig Casey won’t be among the worker bees making it happen.