The Counter Ruck podcast: Nathan Johns and Gordon D’Arcy discuss a busy week in rugby
For the week of an Irish province playing in a European final, there has been plenty of news stories away from Leinster’s clash with Toulouse . Simon Zebo announced his retirement, the IRFU revealed that it will tweak its controversial central contracts system while it even emerged that Hugo Keenan will return to Sevens in a bid to make Ireland’s Olympics squad.
Joining host Nathan Johns to pick through the news as well as the actual rugby taking place on Saturday is former Ireland international Gordon D’Arcy.Means-testing of asylum seekers’ allowance risks ‘pushing families into poverty’, say support groupsDublin Europa League final defies all prematch expectations
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