Marty Moore: 'I’ve a point to prove, but not so much to Irish coaches and selection, more for my team-mates here and to the coaches that I deserve to play for this club and start games.'
IN THE SEVEN years that had elapsed between Marty Moore’s last call-up to the Ireland squad for the 2015 Six Nations and being included in the panel for last month’s Ireland ‘A’ clash with an All Blacks XV, his enthusiasm for the international squad had waned somewhat.
“I suppose it shows that you’re in the back of the mind when it comes to selection to an extent, so it does drive you a bit, but I think it’s been so many years now that it’s not the driving factor when it comes to how I play or whether I play good or bad week in week out,” says Moore.
Although in the short term the focus is not on trophies but simply keeping their winning momentum going. After losing three games in-a-row to Leinster, Sale Sharks and Stade Rochelais – all in different but equally harrowing ways – their victory over Connacht last week was more than well received. First up in that block of games are Munster for the first match of 2023, the southern province the visitors to Belfast on New Year’s Day, and even though the likes of Tadhg Beirne, Peter O’Mahony and Joey Carbery have been held in reserve, Moore is expecting a tough test.
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