Anthony Horgan – Player Profile

He’s a veteran of the Munster team at 26 years of age and one of their leading try scorers. He won his first international cap earlier this year on Ireland’s tour of the southern hemisphere.

He’s a veteran of the Munster team at 26 years of age and one of their leading try scorers. He won his first international cap earlier this year on Ireland’s tour of the southern hemisphere, an honour that would have arrived a year earlier in the same clime only that injury cost him a place in the Ireland tour squad.

Munster Player Profile:

Name: Anthony Horgan.

Star Sign: Scorpio

Place of Birth: Cork

Where/when first played rugby: Schools rugby in PBC when I was 11 years old.

Other sport that I play now: Golf.

Other sport I ve played: Soccer/Golf

Best part of being a pro rugby player: Travelling the world at no expense

Worst part of being a pro rugby player: Lack of free time. No time to plan ahead.

Worst job I ever had: Picking spuds..

Biggest influence on rugby career: My mother and father.

Rugby player I admire most: Mick Galwey.

Other sportsperson I admire most: Martin Cahill.

Other than Munster the side I would like to have played for: None.

Favourite soccer team: Manchester United.

One rule change to make rugby more attractive: More use of the advantage law, it s not used enough.

Career choice other than rugby: Farming.

Career when rugby career is complete: Farming.

Ireland, excepted, your fancy to win the RWC: New Zealand.

It s the end of the season and you ve been offered a choice of, All expenses paid week-long one-to-one warm weather clinic with Alan Gaffney

Or

All expenses paid week long one-to-one warm weather clinic with Jeannifer Lopez.

Your decision and why ?:

You must be joking !!

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Next week we look at a young Limerick man whose favourite soccer team is Wimbledon.