Cullen: We may ‘keep an eye’ on partying players

Leinster rugby coach Leo Cullen says they may be forced to send minders along to player nights-out, after last May’s end-of-season controversies. The province was not happy with the squad’s celebrations last May, with a youth player hospitalised and Ireland flanker Seán O’Brien sanctioned by the IRFU.

Speaking after Saturday’s pre-season hammering of Coventry Rugby, at Energia Park, Cullen, for the first time, addressed the controversial end-of-season incidents: O’Brien urinated on a member of the public in a busy Dublin bar, one day after Leinster’s Guinness PRO14 final win over Glasgow, in Celtic Park, and Jack Dunne, the 20-year-old forward, was attacked by former player Stan Wright, and was hospitalised that night.