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Matt Cooper: Johnny Sexton hangs up the boots to step into Paul Coulson’s €8bn packaging behemoth
Ireiland’s out-half’s post-rugby career will start in earnest with Ardagh after he joined on a part-time basis in 2021 as ‘the Cooler’ winds down
Jonathan Sexton’s post-rugby career will start in earnest with Ardagh, the glass bottle and metal can container manufacturer, once the Rugby World Cup is over; the Irish captain has been a part-time commercial manager there since April 2021. But when he arrives to go full-time, he’s going to find that the main man there, its driving force in recent decades, is heading for the retirement exit.
Paul Coulson – known to many of his friends ...