Calvin Nash signs two-year contract extension with Munster

STAYING PUT: Munster's Calvin Nash has signed a new contract. Pic: ©INPHO/Roberto Bregani.

Calvin Nash is the latest Ireland international to pledge his future to Munster after the announcement of a two-year contract extension to keep Limerick-born wing at the province until at least 2028.

The 28-year-old is set to earn his 100th senior Munster cap on home turf at Thomond Park this Saturday in the URC derby against Connacht, having scored his 28th try in last weekend’s vital league bonus-point win at Benetton in Italy.

Nash joined the Munster academy in 2016 having played with Crescent College Comprehensive and Young Munster RFC in the AIL.

He made his debut against Edinburgh in the February 2017, scored his first try in his second appearance against Zebre the following November and played his first Champions Cup game against Ospreys in January 2020.

Nash was a first-team regular in the URC title-winning 2022/23 season, during which he scored seven tries in 17 matches, his seventh coming in the Grand Final win at the Stormers in Cape Town.

An Ireland debut followed that summer against Italy in a World Cup warm-up in Dublin and the following winter he marked his first international start with a try away to France in the opening-round win in Marseille, Start all five games his two tries across the campaign helped Ireland to the 2024 title.

A series of Injuries since have limited his run as a Munster starter although his try in Treviso last Saturday was his second in eight appearances this season.