The out-half is aiming to back up his impressive performance against La Rochelle.
LIFE IS GOOD for Ross Byrne at the moment. After a frustrating time out of action with an arm injury – missing the entirety of Ireland’s Six Nations campaign – the out-half has returned to club duty with a bang, starring for Leinster in their Champions Cup quarter-final defeat of La Rochelle.
Byrne has been there for every setback since – the defeats to Saracens in 2019 and 2020, along with the trio of losses to La Rochelle across 2021 to 2023. Last year was a particularly sore one – Byrne playing the full 80 minutes as Leinster surrendered a 17-point lead to Ronan O’Gara’s men at Aviva Stadium.
The 29-year-old is now more important to Leinster’s cause than ever, with Johnny Sexton’s retirement leaving him as the senior out-half in Leo Cullen’s squad. Byrne isn’t interested in offering his own thoughts on O’Gara’s words but feels the various experiences and setbacks he’s experienced over the years are standing to him now.
Revenge was the motivation for La Rochelle, but the group will have no shortage of emotional energy to tap into again this week. The opportunity to line out in front of over 80,000 fans at the home of the GAA is one to savour.“It was always very much secondary , I kind of got dragged into it by accident to be honest.
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