Domestic league features healthy smattering of former pros, club stalwarts and ambitious young players
A couple of weeks earlier than last season, but not a moment too soon, the 50 senior clubs up and down the country will eagerly welcome the start of a new Energia All-Ireland League campaign this weekend. The club game has been rejuvenated since somehow withstanding the dark days of the pandemic, and seasoned observers such as long-serving Trinity Director of Rugby Tony Smeeth reckon last season’s standards were the best since the 1990s.
Virtually all games between the top four in 1A last season were crackers and often more entertaining than many URC matches. Since the pandemic, Terenure have been the new boys on the block, muscling into a big four alongside serial champions Cork Constitution, Clontarf and Lansdowne, each of whom have won three titles in the last decade.
Con have had less of a turnover, but ex-Munster winger Sean French has rejoined, as Aidan Moynihan, while the Munster hooker Scott Buckley and backrower Jacob Sheahan have joined from UCC. Garryowen, with their strong contingent of young Munster players, bounced back from relegation with an 11-match winning run which culminated in a 34-3 promotion play-off win over Old Belvedere and they mark their return to the top flight at home to Lansdowne.
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