Craig Casey’s hamstring injury has denied Saturday’s United Rugby Championship match at Croke Park another mano-a-mano duel that boasts an Ireland squad connotation. Not that Jamison Gibson-Park would have fixated on that aspect when immersed in the collision of provincial rivals Leinster and Munster.
He prioritises team over other considerations, content to focus on his role as a metronome in human form, someone who dictates his side’s in-game tempo. The same could be said of Casey, whose stature grew in the summer when he captained Ireland in a couple of Tests against Georgia and Portugal. On and off the pitch, the Munster scrumhalf was eloquent.
During the same time frame Gibson-Park was an integral part of the British & Irish Lions
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