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Sean McMahon reporting from Thomond Park.  For the 25,000 who packed into Thomond Park on Saturday night hoping to see some of Munster’s new expansive style of play, their hopes were quickly dashed as monsoon conditions quickly descended on the famous Limerick venue.  Due to the deteriorating weather conditions, the second-half could only be described as a slugfest as both …

Munster captain Peter O’Mahony has praised the performance of out-half JJ Hanrahan during his side’s Champions Cup draw with Racing 92 in Thomond Park on Saturday. The Kerry man kicked 11 of Munster’s 21-point haul, including a monster conversion to level the game following Andrew Conway’s late try. Hanrahan had an opportunity to steal the win for Johann van Graan’s …

Sean McMahon reporting from Thomond Park.  Draws are strange in rugby but when it comes to the European stage, it’s imperative that you win your home games to give yourself the best opportunity of getting through to the knockout stages.  In this case, it’s difficult to know how Munster are feeling. They looked down and out for long periods of …

Sean McMahon reporting from Yokohama.  Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt has provided an injury update in the aftermath of his side’s 27-3 victory over Scotland in Pool A of the Rugby World Cup.  The game was played at a ferocious pace and both Peter O’Mahony and Bundee Aki were removed in the first half as they picked up head knocks. …

Sean McMahon reporting from Yokohama. Peter O’Mahony believes that Johnny Sexton or any other member of the Irish team are well able to look after themselves if they encounter any special treatment from the Scotland players on Sunday.  In recent years, we have seen an extra-bite to Ireland v Scotland fixtures and this applies to provincial level too with Munster …

Injury permitting, Peter O’Mahony will be lining out at the Yokohama Stadium for Ireland’s opening game of the World Cup against Scotland on September 22. But he already has experience of playing at a World Cup in Japan when he captained the Ireland U20 side which travelled to the country for the 2009 IRB Junior World Championship. 10 years have …

Ireland’s World Rugby U20 Championship campaign kicks off today in Santa Fe as Noel McNamara’s side take on England in their Pool B opener.  Ireland are going into this competition in good form having secured the Grand Slam during the Six Nations earlier this year. Despite some injuries to key players such as David Hawkshaw, Scott Penny and Harry Byrne, …

Sean McMahon reporting from the RDS. Another year, another semi-final exit for Munster.  The southern province have exited both the Champions Cup and the Guinness PRO14 at the last-four stage this season in a repeat of what exactly occurred in the 2017/2018 campaign. On the bare face of it, this suggests that Munster have not evolved since last season and …

Sean McMahon reports from Thomond Park.  Munster will know that if they produce a similar performance against Leinster in two weeks time to the one which saw them scrape their way past Benetton, their wait for silverware will continue into yet another season.  The southern province stared defeat in the face in Limerick this afternoon only for a superb JJ …

Sean McMahon reports from Coventry The dejection was written all over the face of Johann van Graan, Peter O’Mahony and Jack O’Donoghue as they faced the media in the aftermath of yet another loss in the semi-final of the Heineken Champions Cup.  A 16-point margin of defeat greeted Munster at the full-time whistle, it was the exact same margin of …

Peter O’Mahony has warned that Munster will have to produce their best performance of the year in order to beat Saracens in the Champions Cup semi-final on Saturday.  The province edged past Edinburgh in the quarter-final last month thanks to two tries from Keith Earls. In the other match-up, Saracens registered 56 points against Glasgow, without the help of their …

For someone who prides himself on his ability to physically impose himself on opponents, the manner of Ireland’s Six Nations loss to England on Saturday will sting Peter O’Mahony in particular.  O’Mahony and the rest of his forward pack came out second best to their English counterparts with the likes of the Vunipola brothers, Mako and Billy, Kyle Sinckler, Maro …

Peter O’Mahony put it simply when asked what drives Ireland to keep hitting the heights which they reached last year. An unforgettable 2018 which yielded a Grand Slam, a series win in Australia and a historic victory over the All Blacks in November – how does a team motivate themselves when they have achieved all they could have in the …

Munster captain Peter O’Mahony has been rated as “50-50” by head coach Johann van Graan ahead of the southern province’s crucial winner-take-all clash with the Exeter Chiefs on Saturday evening.  The Thomond Park clash is a 1st v 2nd matchup with a win for the home side guaranteeing them progress to the quarter-finals. O’Mahony was removed from the Kingsholm turf …

Munster captain, Peter O’Mahony has fond memories of Kingsholm from his time in the stands supporting his team as a child, and he’s hoping to create some more when Munster travel there on Friday to face Gloucester in their Heineken Champions Cup encounter.  Johann van Graan’s side were comprehensive winners when Gloucester visited Thomond Park in October with tries from …

Ireland have defeated New Zealand for the first time on home soil. Joe Schmidt’s heroes prevailed 16-9 against the fearsome visitors, with Jacob Stockdale scoring the only try of the game in spectacular style. But Peter O’Mahony had his own role to play in the historic victory. The Munster man was a colossus through the 64 minutes he played in, …

There is much excitement surrounding the Ireland versus New Zealand fixture this weekend. The world champions against the second-best team, Ireland looking to atone for previous slips in Dublin against the All Blacks, the possibility that Joe Schmidt could be facing his future team. The fact that this is the final southern hemisphere side that Ireland will face before the …

Munster’s bonus-point win over Gloucester at Thomond Park was overshadowed by the debate surrounding the consistency in the officiating of contact being made with the head.  Danny Cipriani received a straight red card in the first half on Saturday which ultimately ended the match as a competition as the southern province used the man advantage to score a further four …