Dan Kelly: 'I'd almost forgotten what it was like to play with the shackles off'

It’s not that there isn’t structure to what Kelly has found on this side of the Irish Sea. There is. It just isn’t anything like the structure he experienced back at Tigers.

Munster's Dan Kelly scores a try. Pic: Paul Currie/Inpho

Four tries in his first 14 games for Munster are the barest of bones on a body of work that has caught the eye since Dan Kelly’s summer move to Limerick from Leicester Tigers.

The fact that the 24-year-old will earn a second start in midfield for Ireland’s XVs this Friday adds a bit of meat to his successes since relocating to these ancestral shores. And the really good news is that he feels this is just a beginning.