Long road ahead but Peter O’Mahony’s mind on Leinster

With a season still to complete and a new campaign to follow straight after, a long road lies ahead for Ireland’s rugby players. Yet the first game back is the only one Peter O’Mahony is concerned about.

It is currently only week two of Munster’s return to training since the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions and the resumption of matches in Ireland is still another seven weeks away but once 2019-20 competition re-starts with the Guinness PRO14 on August 22-23, it will spark a relentless schedule that Munster head coach Johann van Graan described earlier this week as a 15-month season through to the conclusion of the British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa in July and August 2021.