Coaches are key to fulfilling schoolboy dreams of rugby glory

The stakes have never been so high in the battle to become the next Cian Healy or Luke Fitzgerald.

As schoolboys around the country dream of a professional rugby career, the IRFU is already investing millions in developing teenagers to become our next international stars. On St Patrick’s Day, as the rest of the city is swamped in green, one corner of Dublin will remain resolutely monochrome as one of the oldest Irish sporting occasions will be staged at the RDS.

The bastion of Leinster rugby will be enveloped in black and ...