Baird made Ireland debut against the Italians in 2021 in an empty Roman stadium due to coronavirus restrictions
Although he toured New Zealand with Ireland last summer he didn’t play in the Tests — he was introduced from the bench in the two games against the Maori All Blacks as Kieran Treadwell and Joe McCarthy were the preferred secondrow combination — while injury precluded him from being involved last November following a heavy fall while playing for Leinster and against the Sharks.
“While you’re not playing at the weekend, you still have such a great opportunity on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to practise things in training because we are all on about habits here a lot. Paulie [O’Connell] would drive that and the only way to create a habit is through repetition, so I use, and we all use, training as that platform to do that,” he said.
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