Gary Keegan drafted in to work with Andy Farrell's Ireland

The highly-respected Dubliner has played a key role in some standout Irish sporting success stories and he is now playing his part with a squad undergoing major transition and struggling for form

Ireland head coach Andy Farrell at squad training at the High Performance Centre today. Farrell has drafted in performance coach Gary Keegan into the set up. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Gary Keegan, the renowned performance coach whose fingerprints have been found on some of Irish sports' most successful operations, has been working with Andy Farrell's Ireland squad through the recent Autumn Nations Cup campaign.

Performance anxiety was one of the areas identified in a 2019 World Cup review the full extent of which was not released for general consumption. Enda McNulty, another well-known performance coach, was embedded with the squad for that tournament and for some time before.