By rights, Adrian D’Arcy’s season should have ended on February 25th. Clontarf were beating Lansdowne under lights on the Aviva back pitch when he suffered a grade 2 MCL tear. An estimated 12-week recovery period. His specialist and others all told him his season was over.
As he has decided this is his last season, the 31-year-old flanker had seemingly played his last game for the club where he and his twin brother, the Clontarf captain Matt D’Arcy, had first begun playing mini rugby at the age of five.
For sure that stiffened his resolve to defy the prognosis. So too did his experience in 2015-2016, when tearing his hamstring in the last game of the regular season and so missing out on Clon …
- April 29, 2022
