Molony sees no ceiling as he eyes Tigers and new heights

Leinster second row approaches his 28th birthday with renewed focus and belief that best is yet to come 

Facing forward: Ross Molony during a Leinster Rugby squad training session at UCD in Dublin. 

Ross Molony never made it onto the turf with Ireland last summer. One of the newbies called into Andy Farrell’s squad for the games against Japan and the USA, the Leinster second row spoke with pride at the time about the possibility of emulating his grandfather Jack who had earned a single cap, against Scotland, in 1950.

Deflating? It had to be, but that isn’t to say that the experience didn’t work in his favour. He spoke late last year about how it will be even sweeter when, not if, his Test debut comes around and it continues to act as a spur.