Looking after No10: Joey Carbery is in a tough spot but can move forward

It is 10 years, this week, since O’Gara played his last game. In that time, a succession of players have worn the red number 10 for Munster, with varying degrees of comfort. Nobody has seized the jersey and turned it into a prosperous career, or a silver screen for their talent.

O’Gara wasn’t bombproof either. Nobody is. We worked together for the guts of a year on his first book, and in civilian life he was warm and generous and big-hearted and terrific company. But he had insecurities too, and vulnerabilities, just like the rest of us. He was inclined to be bothered by what other people thought and said, when mostly he just needed to ignore it.Before really big matches he suffered desperately with nerves, no matter how many times he had succeeded in the past.

Carbery is in a tough place now. How much confidence does he have left? How much control does he have over it? Joey Carbery talkings things over with Munster's attack coach Mike Prendergast. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho

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