Andy Farrell says Lions will aid Ireland as Paul O’Connell steps up

Lions head coach Andy Farrell with assistant coach John Fogarty. Pic: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Andy Farrell insisted taking the majority of his Ireland coaches with him to Australia as British & Irish Lions assistants this summer will enhance the national side rather than diminish the forthcoming tour to Georgia and Portugal.

Simon Easterby, Andrew Goodman, and John Fogarty were unveiled in London on Wednesday morning to help head coach Farrell meet his objective of victory over Joe Schmidt’s Wallabies in the nine-game, three-Test tour across July and August alongside England’s Richard Wigglesworth and Scotland’s John Dalziel.