Dave Kilcoyne: ‘You don’t make Munster or Ireland teams without leadership abilities’

Kilcoyne is a young man but his is nonetheless the oldest name on the 37-man Ireland squad

‘You don’t make squads unless you are capable of leading yourself. You drive standards by trying to bring energy to everything you do,’ says Ireland’s Dave Kilcoyne. Picture: Inpho/Ryan Byrne

Sport comes at you fast. Dave Kilcoyne is a young man but his is nonetheless the oldest name on the roster of 37 players called up by Andy Farrell for a summer Test series that gets underway on Saturday with the visit of Japan to Dublin.

Only Peter O’Mahony has accumulated more caps.