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Niall Woods and Jordi Murphy: ‘It’s been an emotional year in a lot of ways, but I’m grateful for the career I’ve had,’ says Murphy. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Twelve years ago, in a hotel in Dublin, Niall Woods sat down for the first time with Jordi Murphy.

Murphy was in his first year in the Leinster rugby academy, not yet a professional, and Woods had just left IRUPA, the rugby players’ union, and was striking out on his own as an agent and yet to sign a client.

When they all sat down together, Woods made his pitch, though neither man can today ...