If this was a club team - they were all, at the time, Leinster players - then it might be more appealing. In the match-day 22 against Romania that afternoon he was the only one of the Irish-born players not to have come through the schools' system. The schools' game rules the playground. So they get away with corralling kids and stopping them playing rugby outside the schools' environment. But you have to remember, with the schools like Blackrock and Michael's they have principals whose kids are professional rugby players.

Source: Irish Independent March 29, 2020 20:03 UTC