Is a return to Munster on the cards for Denis Leamy?

Leamy has followed up an acclaimed playing career in red with a stint as an elite player development officer with Leinster and a new post as the senior team’s skills coach

Leinster Rugby Squad Training, Rosemount, UCD, Dublin 21/3/2022. Contact Skills Coach Denis Leamy. ©INPHO/Ben Brady

Graham Rowntree’s accession to the Munster throne will not stop the rumour mill. The Englishman still has a coaching staff to muster before he officially takes over from Johann van Graan at the start of July and some familiar names will inevitably crop up again between now and then.

Noel McNamara, Ireland’s former U20 coach who is now with the Sharks in South Africa, has been proffered as a man who could do a job. So too Mike Prendergast, a son of Munster who continues to be mentioned in dispatches despite his protestations at the start of the year that he was perfectly happy in Paris with Racing 92.