Ireland out-half Sam Prendergast: 'Slight? That’s a bit harsh. I’m just quite tall'

Prendergast stands 6’ 4” tall. This is a tall man but not a ‘big’ one by the game’s modern standards.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: Ireland out-half Sam Prendergast. Pic: Billy Stickland/Inpho

Sam Prendergast is well into the closing minutes of his midweek chat with the fourth estate. He has handled himself as expertly in the confines of this meeting room in Abbotstown as he tends to do on a rugby pitch.

It's just days since his elevation to the status of Test rugby player, with 22 composed minutes off the bench at the back end of the narrow win against Argentina cementing the view that the time is already now for a man everyone knew had a big future.