Craig Casey: 'I watch back the game three or four times. It’s probably a bit mad but I’m obsessed, so it has to be done'

Craig Casey as a Munster mascot with Anthony Foley at Thomond Park in 2005. Picture: INPHO/Billy Stickland

When you are six years old and you hear you had better be improving your passing off both hands, it is little wonder Craig Casey became the rugby obsessive he is.

No surprise either then, that Munster’s rising scrum-half star has been elevated to an Ireland Six Nations squad three months before his 22nd birthday.