Loughman and Jager reunited at Munster after very different paths

Jeremy Loughman has fond memories of their time boarding and playing together at Blackrock College – he was a year younger - and of Jager’s father Harm, their Dutch-born S&C instructor and a man who had a voice like the Terminator.

REUNITING: Jeremy Loughman during a Munster rugby squad training session at University of Limerick in Limerick. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Nine years had passed by the time Jeremy Loughman and three old school pals found a gap of sorts in Ireland’s end-of-season tour and met up for an unlikely and impromptu reunion in the middle of a New Zealand winter.

The Munster prop had won a Leinster Schools Senior Cup medal alongside Garry Ringrose, Nick Timoney and Oli Jager in 2013. Now here they all were on the far side of the world having got there via very different paths.