Shane Daly: New license to play at Munster, Emerging Ireland leadership role and World Cup ambitions 

SPONSORSHIP: Pictured in Thomond Park in Limerick are; from left, Scott Buckley, Shane Daly, Denis Fogarty of FREE NOW, Maeve Óg O'Leary, Alana McInerney, Conor Murray and Kate Flannery. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

A switch will flick in Shane Daly’s head this week as he parks his Munster duties and reports into camp with Simon Easterby’s Emerging Ireland squad for the forthcoming three-match tour to Bloemfontein.

Still just 25, he was almost 22 when making a senior provincial debut but he will transform from one of the less experienced members of one group and into a veritable older head in another as he makes it up the road from Limerick to Dublin.