Peter O'Mahony will become just the 10th Irish rugby player to play 100 times for his country when Ireland face Scotland at the Stade de France
On a big night in the Stade de France the Munster stalwart will become just the 10th Irish rugby player to play 100 times for his countryPeter O'Mahony: will reach a very special milestone and join a select band of Irish rugby greats when he wins his 100th Ireland cap in the Rugby World Cup clash against Scotland. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
Cue a third scrum, another charge and another shoeing for his troubles. But this time all his team-mates, backs included, piled in and all hell broke loose. The Pres boys were younger but there were more of them and they gave as good as they got for three or four minutes.Ref off: Reviewing Ireland’s record with officials before the clash with Scotland
Peter O'Mahony: at 34 the Munster stalwart remains as integral a part of the Irish team as ever. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho But after Ireland lost their first four lineouts, they won 12 of their next 14, moving to shortened lineouts in restricting the Boks to one defensive pod and, above all, using O’Mahony’s speed on the ground and agility in the air for Ronan Kelleher and Dan Sheehan to hit their target.
“He was very competitive, but if the game went away from him he’d get very temperamental. At that age, it was about channelling his competitiveness, which was so feral and natural, into a full performance. So, Caleb moved him into the forwards.”“They just had this massively aggressive approach but no sense or organisation to it. But Peter developed pretty quickly in the backrow.”
“Although he went about his business quietly and humbly, Peter was already a very galvanic, charismatic personality amongst the boys. “He was the best player on the pitch. So competitive, focused, energised, intelligent in everything he did. He was a man apart, I felt, at that stage.” O’Mahony came back to Pres and informed Barr: ‘They see me as a seven. Paul, I’m not even the best seven in Pres.’“He’s been told he was too small, he was told he got injured too frequently. But I think Peter competes at such a high level that when he gets a knock, instead of continuing on with the play, and not being 100%, he ‘takes a knee’, allows his brain to recalibrate and then go again. And I think to this day, he still does that.
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