The winger recently signed his first central contract with the IRFU.
MACK HANSEN ADMITS all of this is going a little bit better than he ever really expected. He’s just signed a new contract with the IRFU and Connacht, stepping up to a central deal for the first time, having established himself as a key member of the Ireland starting XV.
“I remember thinking coming to Galway that I was going to be living in a hut somewhere, that my lights were going to be candles and stuff like that, like I had no clue what I was coming into to be honest with you!” His Irish roots are in the south of the country, with Hansen’s mother, Diana, leaving the East Cork town of Castlemartyr around 50 years ago.
To date Hansen has been capped 27 times for Ireland, scoring 12 tries in the process. A lively, hard-working winger, it’s no surprise to hear there was some interest from overseas before he penned the new deal. Speaking to the media in Abbotstown yesterday Hansen played down Walters’ words of praise, but pointed to his early days playing out-half as something which has stood to him all these years later.
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