O'Mahony sure of student of the game Crowley's international standards

'Himself and Craig (Casey), I don’t know what they’d be doing but they’d be at the HPC for hours on end, be it recovering, on laptops, doing extras in the gym. They’re just unbelievable professionals,' O'Mahony said.

CORK, LIKE: Peter O'Mahony and Jack Crowley. Pic: Dan Sheridan, Inpho

Peter O’Mahony cannot remember shaking a 12-year-old Jack Crowley’s hand but the Ireland captain has learned an awful lot since about the young fly-half and a dozen years on he is backing him to put in a huge performance against France tonight.

The first meeting between the future Munster and Ireland team-mates came at a Bandon Rugby Club awards presentation when O’Mahony and provincial teammates Simon Zebo and Scott Deasy dished out the awards and the future Test number 10 (and Cork Constitution clubmate) was among the recipients.