Murphy’s well-drilled side bidding to claim a third successive victory in this year’s Six Nations
He said: “I played wing back in school in about fourth year [when] on the seniors, I have a bit of experience there, so it is not too bad.
“We don’t want to be pack-focused, forward-focused, it is just when the opportunity presents itself, we will play,” he says. “We want to play to the space, if that’s up front or out on the edges, we will play to where the space is.” Cooney said: “The Wales game, it was more a case of the momentum just changed, we had more of the ball, so we weren’t in those scenarios as much as we were in the first half. Those small fixes that we implemented helped us in the France game.
Ireland lost a high-scoring friendly game against Italy in Castle Avenue in December. Cooney played in that game.
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