Kilcoyne raves about ‘best-ever’ Ireland camp

The 34-year-old Munster prop, at his second World Cup and playing under his third head coach, is not the first senior Ireland player to praise Andy Farrell

SOLID ENVIRONMENT: Dave Kilcoyne signs autographs with members of Drop Quartier Rugby. Pic: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

For the clockwatchers amongst us, those who can’t wait for 5pm on a Friday and dread the advance of Monday morning, the Ireland’s squad’s hunger to get back to work rather than stay off the clock earlier this week will be an alien concept.

Yet the way Dave Kilcoyne describes it, players were itching to get back to camp here in Tours rather than continue the three-day break that followed their victory in last Saturday’s titanic World Cup pool collision with defending champions South Africa.