The Munster player starts at fullback for Ireland A in Bristol today.
THE QUESTION ALMOST feels too blindingly obvious to ask, but we put it to Shane Daly anyway on the off-chance he might throw back an unexpected name. He doesn’t. No prizes for guessing who Daly looked up to as a soccer-mad Manchester United supporting young fella growing up in Cork.
— Premier Sports December 7, 2024 Daly himself feels those years playing soccer and GAA helped him become the rugby player he is today. “If you play in the back three it’s definitely something that’ll assist you. Every sport has something to learn in it that applies to something else, and Gaelic football is a good one for that, especially for the aerial stuff.”
A former Ireland U20 international, Daly was capped twice at Test level in 2020 and 2021. Since then, he’s been called into camps and featured in Emerging Ireland and Ireland A games, but the phone has gone cold over the last few seasons. Speaking to the media last week as the Ireland A group came together in Abbotstown, Daly’s excitement at being back in the mix was evident.
I think I always wanted to play the game expansively and wanted to express myself from the skills side of the game, and probably didn’t really always have the opportunity to do that and didn’t have the comfort and the freedom to do that. “So when I came up here they wanted to play that way and I hadn’t been repping it. So when I was in the senior sessions I found it pretty difficult at that stage.
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