John O'Sullivan

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1,312 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · The AFL comes for Irish rugby · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

He dislocated his shoulder in the last game of the Six Nations against Scotland.

And he rehabbed without surgery.

He played the opening match, the tournament against England.

65 minutes into that game, his shoulder popped out and back in.

And they strapped it up and he played the Argentina game, which was definitely a game too far for him.

And he would admit that.

He'd be the first to admit that himself.

So he had been pondering this ahead of going, the choice between going to Australia and...

Taking up, he'd been offered a Leinster Academy contract and Leinster are obviously very keen.

And for those of you who haven't seen Noah Byrne, he would be the quickest player in Leinster, senior or academy player.

Very, very fast.

Very good footballer.

He would be...

one of the few players with that top-end pace available in Irish rugby.

So he would be somebody that they wanted to keep.

There's no question about it.

I spoke to Peter Smith about it and he said, yeah, look, we had made provisions for him to go into the academy and it wasn't something that Noah made a decision on.

Likely, basically, he took six or seven weeks to make the decision, but decided that...

A couple of years in Australia, pursuing roles, a challenge of another sport.

And I think that's probably what's at the heart of it, a challenge of another sport.

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