Friday’s United Rugby Championship Spherical 17 conflict with Edinburgh at Hive Stadium will see Jack O’Donoghue make his 2 hundredth look for the province.
In doing so, the Waterford man will turn out to be the youngest participant to succeed in 200 appearances for Munster and in addition turns into the 14th participant to attain this landmark.
The 30-year-old is a product of the Munster youth’s system having beforehand captained his membership facet Waterpark to an U17 Munster title in 2011 and the 12 months earlier was a part of the All Eire profitable Waterpark U17 facet that defeated Enniscorthy within the decider.
In April 2012, he captained the Eire U18 Membership facet in opposition to France and England, after which made his British and Irish Cup Munster A debut at 18 years of age in opposition to Rotherham Titans in December 2012 after that includes within the Munster U20s interprovincial sequence.
He featured for the Eire U19s in 2013 earlier than getting a name as much as the U20s squad for the IRB Junior World Championship in France the place he performed in opposition to Fiji.
O’Donoghue captained the Munster U20s for the Interprovincial sequence in September 2013 and was chosen for the Irish U20s squad within the 2014 Six Nations, beginning in 4 video games and selecting up the participant of the match award within the opening recreation in opposition to Scotland, scoring two tries.
O’Donoghue was named within the U20 Junior World Cup squad in June 2014 and captained the squad after they travelled to New Zealand for the match, taking part in in 4 video games.
Jack made his Munster Rugby senior debut when coming off the bench for Robin Copeland after 57 minutes in opposition to Zebre in Thomond Park in September 2014 the place he went on to make 10 senior appearances that season along with captaining the Munster ‘A’ squad all through 2014/15.
Jack O’Donoghue throughout his Munster debut in opposition to Zebre in September 2014. ©INPHO
O’Donoghue was awarded that Academy Participant of the 12 months in 2015 earlier than signing a three-year deal which started with making 26 appearances within the 2015/16 season.
That sturdy marketing campaign led to Jack making his Eire debut in opposition to Canada on the Aviva Stadium within the 2016 November Sequence and he signed a contract extension in March 2017 to convey him up till the tip of the 2018/19 season.
O’Donoghue earned his second cap in opposition to Japan in 2017 earlier than changing into the primary Waterford man to captain Munster within the skilled period in February 2018.
O’Donoghue made his a centesimal look for Munster in Might 2019, a 12 months after he suffered a knee ligament harm. A two-year contract extension signed that season introduced him up till the tip of the 2020/21 season.
The back-row made 40 appearances throughout the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons and signed one other two 12 months contract which noticed him clock up probably the most minutes (1,638) out of anybody within the squad throughout the 2021/22 marketing campaign. He was awarded the Munster participant of the 12 months that season and have become the youngest participant to succeed in 150 appearances for the province.
One other stellar season in 2022/23 noticed O’Donoghue make 23 appearances as Munster received the URC title.
This season, an harm picked up in opposition to Connacht in January noticed O’Donoghue miss out on a block of video games however the back-row has returned in latest weeks placing in plenty of wonderful performances because the marketing campaign reaches its climax.
