He and Girvan [Dempsey] had come through, they were coaching the academy at the time and Kurt was with us,” Cullen recalled. They [Connacht] are fighting for every point at this stage in the season,” Tector said. There’s even lads from Leinster in those teams and you see how much it means to them then to play against Leinster again. Another native of Wexford, Josh Murphy made 61 appearances for Leinster before moving west in 2022 and his former head coach Cullen anticipates he will add substantially to Connacht’s line-out threat from blindside flanker. I thought we set the tone well with a good line-out drive against Munster at the weekend,” Cullen added.

Source: Irish Examiner January 03, 2026 14:45 UTC