{"id":75212,"date":"2025-09-20T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75212\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:58:09","slug":"conor-murray-book-reveals-training-ground-clash-with-oconnell-and-friendship-with-sexton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75212\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Murray book reveals training ground clash with O\u2019Connell and friendship with Sexton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\u201cYeah, but it was a pass a world-class [player] should still have caught, right?\u201d When certain Ireland and Leinster players reflect on how Joe Schmidt transformed the fortunes of both set-ups, they recall a moment only weeks into his tenure with Leinster when he brought Brian O\u2019Driscoll down a peg or two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They were in the video room dissecting a passage of play in which a sloppy pass had been hurled towards O\u2019Driscoll who had duly fumbled it. Schmidt pulled up the player who\u2019d thrown the pass but before he moved on to the next clip, he almost casually but pointedly threw that question and quip towards O\u2019Driscoll. The whole room gasped \u2013 and inwardly smiled. No one was sacred now. Not even the team\u2019s \u2013 country\u2019s, sport\u2019s \u2013 best player.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4633150_1_org_IE_logo_modals.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\tUnlimited access. Half the price.<\/p>\n<p>Annual \u20ac120\u20ac60<\/p>\n<p class=\"best-value\">Best value<\/p>\n<p>Monthly \u20ac10\u20ac5 \/ month<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Benefits image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4750392_1_org_Save_50_offer.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYeah, but it was a pass a world-class [player] should still have caught, right?\u201d When certain Ireland and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12311,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-75212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-munster-rugby","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}