Cian Healy, Peter O’Mahony and Conor Murray are already Irish greats.
NOT THAT IRELAND would have been short of motivation in the coming weeks, but today’s news means they’ll be playing out of their skins to send three Irish rugby legends into the sunset with another Six Nations title and maybe another Grand Slam.
O’Mahony has been playing well in Ireland’s number six shirt and Murray is the back-up scrum-half to Jamison Gibson-Park, so it seems almost certain that all three will play their final home games for Ireland in the clash with the French in Dublin on 8 March. He has been a pain in the backside for every opponent he has faced and continues to be now. O’Mahony’s ongoing good form upon returning to the starting team for this campaign suggests he could have played on a little longer, but he will look to go out at the very top.
He has redesigned himself as a prop in recent years, honing his set-piece craft and figuring out ways to impact games when others took on more ball-carrying responsibility. Healy has also been a highly influential mentor for Andrew Porter and many other younger props. He surely has a role as a scrum coach somewhere in the future.
He was a key man for Joe Schmidt’s Ireland, with his controlling play key to their success, and while Jamison Gibson-Park has been the starter at scrum-half in recent years, Murray has remained influential off the bench or when stepping in at number nine in the former’s absence.
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