Tomas O’Leary among a crop of Munster friends to take the coaching path

“There’s a lot of boys who have gone into coaching and have been very successful off the back of it. That speaks to the culture of that Munster team."

Tomas O'Leary, former Ireland and Munster player, head of junior rugby and teacher at Christians Brothers College, Cork.

As a member of two Heineken Cup-winning squads in a professional rugby playing career spanning 12 seasons, former Munster and Ireland scrum-half Tomas O’Leary played with the cream of Irish rugby talent and for some of the best coaches in the sport.

It is no surprise to the Corkman that so many of his former team-mates are now elite-level professional coaches and he is grateful to have them among an expertly curated network of sounding boards as he continues his own path as a schools rugby coach at CBC.