Conor Murray blocking out the social media abuse to contribute for Munster and Ireland

"Whether I made a mistake or not, I wouldn't read it. You're aware of it. You can't not be aware of it, that's the thing in this day and age, you can't not see it. Whether you read it all is up to the player themselves but I just saw enough to go, 'no, I'm gone'.”

HEAR NO EVIL: Conor Murray during Munster rugby squad training at University of Limerick in Limerick. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Signing on for another year with Munster, and Ireland, was the easy part for Conor Murray, accepting that his new contract extension comes inevitably with potentially another 12 months on online abuse is a more difficult for the veteran scrum-half to digest.

"The joys of it lads!” Murray said as the 34-year-old Test centurion reflected on the anonymous trolling that came his way following Ireland’s one-point defeat to England at Twickenham last month and the prospect of more coming his way now he has extended his stay with Munster beyond the central IRFU contract that expires at the end of the current campaign.