Tom Farrell relieved to make Ireland bow and get monkey off his back

Ireland's Tom Farrell celebrates after the match. Pic: Billy Stickland/Inpho

Munster’s Tom Farrell has revealed the relief he felt having finally earned his Test debut with Ireland, against Japan, at the age of 32.

It wasn’t the best of performances by Ireland as a collective, but this was still everything that Farrell had wanted and it came six years after he was first called into the Ireland squad by former head coach Joe Schmidt.