MY LIFE IN RUGBY
THE FORMER LEINSTER, ROTHERHAM, GLOUCESTER AND MUNSTER WINGER
SHANE MONAHAN
IDEFINITELY experienced the fickle nature of professional sport at first hand, going from being cast aside in Ireland, to being a regular starter at Gloucester and on the fringes of the Ireland squad, to returning to the wilderness again – all in the space of a few years.
I was in a very successful Ireland U20s team that won the 2007 Six Nations Grand Slam alongside Sean O’Brien, Cian Healy, Keith Earls, Darren Cave, Felix Jones and Ian Keatley. Being a part of that team helped to get me into t...