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Rob Kearney agrees one year deal - reports
By Ian Cameron
Decorated Irish fullback Rob Kearney has agreed a new one year deal with the IRFU - according to reports.
Speculation had been rife after last week it was revealed that the British and Irish Lion had felt an IRFU offer for his services care of David Nucifora had been too low.
According to reports in the Irish Daily Mirror Kearney confirmed the new deal this afternoon, putting to bed speculation that he was set to become the latest high profile Irish player to take up an overseas contract.
A playful Instagram post by Sean O'Brien suggested the Louth native was headed to France, which helped spark speculation that the 90 times capped international was on the verge of a shock exit.
Kearney has been almost ever-present in the number 15 jersey with Ireland during the Joe Schmidt era, however he wasn’t selected for Ireland’s Six Nations opener with England based on his form after returning from injury, with Robbie Henshaw selected instead.
The 33-year-old did return for Ireland’s next game against Scotland and retained the jersey for the rest of the Championship, bar his late withdrawal due to injury in the penultimate game against France.
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How do you feel about Schmidts progress now?
When you say turners then around - they were horrendous and got absolutely pumped by wales at the World Cup and by Argentina recently
So it’s not hard to improve from that
And now they play a decent side (albeit still not top four) and get pumped 4 tries to 1
The ABs have their own issues but I’ll take our 6 class props and other areas of improvement every day
Go to commentsUmaga-Jensen at 26 has the attributes of a 2nd-5 and has moved past injuries that hampered his earlier elevation to AB status. I agree with TI that we persist with playing people out of position and ignore the best positional players from selection.
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