Munster will reconvene at their High Performance Centre in Limerick on Tuesday for a post-season debrief following their URC semi-final exit at home to Glasgow Warriors last Saturday with Graham Rowntree’s squad set to break up in more ways than one. Ireland boss Andy Farrell and his forwards coach Paul O’Connell were in the Thomond Park stands as the URC champions and play-off top seeds were beaten 17-10, thus ending a 10-game winning run since January 1. With a touring squad to name on Wednesday for next month’s two-Test series against South Africa, the Irish management will be awaiting an update on absent winger Calvin Nash, who missed the knockout clash with a knock to his leg, while hoping fellow Six Nations winners Tadhg Beirne, Jack Crowley, Conor Murray and national captain Peter O’Mahony emerged unscathed from a physical semi-final.
Fellow Munstermen, and wider squad members Craig Casey, Oli Jager and Jeremy Loughman will also be hoping for seats on the plane the week after next but uncapped lock Tom Ahern was ruled out of the Springbok clashes in Pretoria on July 6 and Durban seven days later after undergoing surgery on the ankle injury he sustained against Ulster on June 1. The Ireland Under-20s start their World Championship campaign in Cape Town on June 29, with eight Munstermen, led by captain Evan O’Connell, on the 30-man squad. Brian Gleeson, Emmet Calvey, Danny Sheahan, Sean Edogbo, Luke Murphy, Ben O’Connor and Jake O’Riordan will also travel.
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