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the Ireland camps are based, they’re about 200m away from each other, so the facilities and how they operate are both directly comparable. “The training was quite professional and quite similar to the sub-Academy. “I was a midfielder. As a winger, there’s a lot of crossover with general hand-eye coordination, high balls, kicking and fitness, so it was a good transition over to rugby. It seemed to click well.” He hasn’t always been out on the wing though, that change came as he progressed through the ranks in Blackrock College. Having watched his older brother, Evin, playing with the school, Comerford had it in his head that he’d follow suit once he entered the Williamstown institution. And so he did. First, playing as a flanker, he later transitioned to the backs where he settled on the wing. During his time with Blackrock, he scored the only try in the 2016 Bank of Ireland Leinster Schools Junior Cup final, an 8-3 win over archrivals St Michael’s College at Energia Park. At the same time he was dotting the ball down, an awkward landing and the chasing pack combined resulting in that broken wrist but he refused to go to the hospital until he knew the job was done. “That was in the first 15 minutes, we’d a scrum in the middle of the field. I managed to break through and score a try, but in the process of scoring the try, I also managed to give myself a fracture in the wrist,” he reflects. “I slid in weird and someone came in on my back and I kept going over the ball and broke my wrist doing it. We won 8-3 in the end so it was worth it. “I went back to the school and then went to the hospital so I missed the team celebration afterwards. I got back for the end of it but I had to get it manipulated that day.” “I was in a cast overnight, then had to get surgery and was in the cast for another four weeks. It wasn’t great!” Rivals on that day and many since, he is now working in Leinster alongside former adversaries who have become teammates and friends. From The Ground Up | 88 | www.leinsterrugby.ie
“There’s always fierce competition in the schools but those games (v St Michael’s) would have a bit more niggle than the other ones but when it comes to Leinster, that fades away, and you’re all playing for the same team. “There can’t be any distrust among players.” That same policy extends now into joining Ireland camp with players from other provinces and clubs. Comerford was selected as part of Noel McNamara’s Ireland U-20 squad for the 2020 Six Nations tournament with a lot of promise in the squad following on from the Grand Slam of 2019. With a trial to join the U-19s on a tour of France being the closest Comerford had previously gotten to playing for Ireland, excitement was high at the prospect of getting to pull on the green jersey in this year’s tournament. Ireland quickly racked up three wins from three, beating Scotland, Wales and England before Covid called a halt to their year. www.leinsterrugby.ie | 89 | From The Ground Up
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