Tadhg Beirne on missing Munster's South Africa trip: 'We dodged a bullet'

Beirne will be among the patched-up Munster squad that travels to Coventry this weekend to face Wasps

Tadhg Beirne. Photo by Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile

Tadhg Beirne has counted himself lucky he was not one of the Munster players who went to South Africa.

On the day when Scarlets were forced to concede their Heineken Cup Champions Cup game against Bristol Bears having been forced into quarantine after the emergence of the Covid-19 Omicron variant during their United Rugby Championship trip to South Africa, the Munster, Ireland, and Lions forward admitted he and the others who missed the trip had “dodged a bullet”.