Munster CEO: 'Rugby is completely secondary to everything that’s going on at the moment'

Flanagan said he was in daily contact with the confirmed cases and that some had experienced mild Covid symptoms but the group had full access to medical and mental health attention

Munster Rugby CEO Ian Flanagan. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

Munster Rugby chief executive Ian Flanagan has underlined the province’s commitment to fulfilling their opening European game at Wasps on December 12 but says the organisation’s priority remains the welfare of its 14 players and staff members still quarantined in South Africa.

Munster on Thursday evening posted a 10-minute in-house interview with Flanagan giving an overview of the past week’s events which saw Johann van Graan’s squad caught up in the emergence of a new variant of the Covid-19 virus in South Africa, the postponement of two games in Pretoria and Johannesburg and then a scramble to leave the country prompted by the imposition of travel restrictions on people leaving the region.