Ulster prop Tom O’Toole says it is an “extreme honour” to play for Ireland after being named in Andy Farrell’s squad for the forthcoming Six Nations.<\/p>\n
The focus this weekend is on the United Rugby Championships, but on 5 February, Ireland kick off their Six Nations campaign against the current holders France in Dublin. <\/p>\n
With 18 caps under his belt, O’Toole will be hoping to play a role in helping Ireland secure the title they won back-to-back in 2023 and 2024 after being named this week in Andy Farrell’s wider panel for the championship. <\/p>\n
”I think every player would love to get the opportunity to play in green, and I’ve been fortunate enough to play in it. It is an extreme honour to be back within that group.” he told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n
”I went in from early in my career and I got that experience and exposure from a young age with some incredible players like Jonny Sexton. <\/p>\n
”The amount of experience you get from those guys, you can take into your day-to- day and how you carry yourself and how you get around your business. That’s something I took from that experience.”<\/p>\n
The tight-head prop, who joined the Ulster Academy in 2017, made his senior debut a year later and has been a key player in Richie Murphy’s side ever since. <\/p>\n
This weekend he will embrace the challenge of continuing their fine form against Scarlets at the Parc y Scarlets in Wales (15:00 GMT on Saturday).<\/p>\n
”It’s been incredible, it’s been a great buzz. It was difficult last year for supporters and players, but it’s really good this year with a great buzz about the place,” added the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n
”The new coaches have come in, they’ve been really good for the squad and we’re playing an exciting brand of attacking rugby. <\/p>\n
”It’s really enjoyable to be a part of and it’s the rugby I enjoy playing. It just took one or two performances to get that belief within ourselves and to prove we can do it and play.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster prop Tom O’Toole says it is an “extreme honour” to play for Ireland after being named in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-433095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}