Peter O’Mahony: 'I trained with a guy born in 2004. Keith Earls could've been his father!'

O’Mahony looks set to captain a side that will feature nine fellow Test players, including 34-year-old Earls, and a number of academy players

Peter O'Mahony. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

Peter O’Mahony has underlined just how deep Covid-hit Munster are mining into their playing pool for this Sunday’s European clash at Wasps by saying he trained with a player who could have been Keith Earls’s son.

With most of its first-team senior squad quarantined in either South Africa or Ireland following a Covid outbreak on tour two weeks ago, O’Mahony looks set to captain a side that will feature nine fellow Test players, including 34-year-old Earls, who missed the ill-fated United Rugby Championship trip and will be made up of academy players and possibly age-grade talent from the province’s National (NTS) and Provincial Training (PTS) Squads.