Graham Rowntree: Tadhg Beirne has everything required to be a lock for Ireland

"His athleticism is ridiculous but he can also pack a scrum," says Munster's forwards coach

Graham Rowntree wasn't overly keen on revisiting's Munster's loss to Leinster. Picture: Inpho/Morgan Treacy

Graham Rowntree didn't appear all that happy to revisit Munster's loss to Leinster earlier this week.

The province's forwards coach chewed on a relatively innocuous query about what had pleased him in that narrow PRO14 defeat, and what had not, like it was a barely tolerable morsel of meat before deciding that there was nothing for it but to swallow the offending lump.