Four Ireland U20 internationals part of 2024-25 Munster Academy squad

Back-rowers Seán Edogbo and Luke Murphy, hooker Danny Sheahan and scrum-half Jake O’Riordan are all heading to South Africa with the Ireland squad for next month’s World Rugby U20 Championship.

MUNSTER ACADEMY SQUAD: Four Ireland Under-20 internationals will be among this six-player intake to the 2024-25 Munster Academy squad this summer, the province announced on Friday.

Munster’s search for its latest intake of local talent to their academy for next season represents the culmination of three-year process of a “Munsterised” Talent Identification system, according to Ian Costello.

Costello, appointed last summer as Munster’s first head of rugby operations, began his quest to improve the pathway in which young players were first identified and then brought into its elite development programme while he was head of academy. Now he believes Munster have a Talent ID system to be proud of.