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Ulster No10 Billy Burns signs for Irish rivals
By Josh Raisey
Munster have signed Ulster No10 Billy Burns ahead of next season, who will arrive at Thomond Park on a one-year deal, as reported by RugbyPass.
The 29-year-old has spent the last six seasons at Ulster, having arrived from Gloucester in 2018, and has made 107 appearances to date.
Since making his Ulster debut, he has gone on to represent Ireland seven times, qualifying through his paternal grandfather. He was handed his first cap by Andy Farrell against Wales in the 2020 Autumn Nations Cup.
Burns will replace Joey Carbery at Munster, who is set to join the Top 14's Bordeaux-Begles at the end of the season. He will compete with incumbent Ireland fly-half Jack Crowley for the red No10 jersey.
Elsewhere in the Munster squad, prop John Ryan and lock Cian Hurley have both signed one-year contract extensions with the United Rugby Championship winners.
The tighthead prop Ryan, 35, made his Munster debut in 2011, and has gone on to make 217 appearances while also enjoying stints in England and New Zealand.
Academy product Hurley is at the other end of his Munster career at the age of 23, and has only made five appearances so far.
The announcement of Burns' departure comes just days after Ulster confirmed the signing of versatile South Africa Sevens veteran Werner Kok from the Sharks.
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Total and utter rubbish. All that so-called ‘Super’ rugby did for SA rugby was to increase the airmiles accounts for our players and contribute a moer of a lot of cash to the Antipodeans. SA's schools and club rugby are the secret, and the only problem for our top sides is that so many of them are being poached by the European ones, and from an early age, too. That's why the Boks are so good, but the SA senior sides not so much at the moment, but are slowly coming to terms with having to play in NH weather. Mind you, they had to do that in skaapnaaier territory in the old days, too.
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It’s even worse when the NZRU relatively recently gave Rugby Australia a bigger cut of the Super Rugby broadcast.
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