When the Rainbow Cup was launched the other year, Tadhg Furlong was actually pushing for me to be the face of it! He’s a bit of an entrepreneur and was asking for a 30 per cent cut. But at this standard, in professional rugby, you can’t be an a***hole. ‘In teenage rugby locker rooms, it’s probably a more aggressive culture and you could definitely see how younger people would get forced out of the sport. I’d always chatted about things with the academy lads and eventually some of the older lads might ask questions about it after a few pints.
Just in second rows alone there was James Ryan, Ross Molony, Ryan Baird, Oisin Dowling, myself.
‘When I joined Leinster, everyone already knew. The Leinster forward is the only active professional in rugby union who has come out
