Attack coach Nigel Carolan to leave Connacht - ending 26-year association with province 

Connacht backs coach Nigel Carolan is leaving the province after 26 years at the end of the season. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

Nigel Carolan is will leave his role with Connacht Rugby at the end of the season - ending an unbroken two-and-a-half decade spell in the western province.

The Galway native has been the attack coach at the Sportsground since 2017, having spent 14 years as academy manager and before that as a player in the late 1990s.