{"id":369290,"date":"2026-03-28T05:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369290\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T05:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:51:12","slug":"ireland-great-slams-glasgow-warriors-in-epic-rant-after-sickening-sam-prendergast-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369290\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland great slams Glasgow Warriors in epic rant after ‘sickening’ Sam Prendergast treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donncha O\u2019Callaghan is desperately hoping that Glasgow Warriors get their comeuppance following their antics in the victory over Leinster last weekend.<\/p>\n

The former Ireland lock went on an epic rant on The Offload podcast about the behaviour of the Glasgow players in the United Rugby Championship clash.<\/p>\n

Despite it being almost a week after the game, O\u2019Callaghan was still fuming and believes that it will come back to bite the Warriors.<\/a><\/p>\n

It takes a lot for a Munster legend to stick up for his Leinster<\/a> counterparts, but the 47-year-old was decidedly not impressed by the Scottish outfit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something I\u2019m starting to like about Scotland but that\u2019s definitely not the case for Glasgow, I couldn\u2019t believe the way they conducted themselves,\u201d the 98-times capped ex-international said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just got me thinking, they\u2019re going to come up against Leinster in the business end and I would have every one of those clips, I would have every word stored and ready to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I just think they\u2019re an awful shower of p*****.\u201d<\/p>\n

What made O\u2019Callaghan angry<\/p>\n

It was not necessarily ill-tempered between the teams but it was certainly tense and that spilt over towards the end when Glasgow fly-half Adam Hastings ruffled the hair of his opposite number Sam Prendergast<\/a> following a try.<\/p>\n

That sparked a fracas between the teams with former Glasgow and Scotland playmaker Duncan Weir, who was acting as the hosts\u2019 waterboy, also getting involved.<\/p>\n

Hastings was yellow-carded for instigating the incident but that did not dampen his spirits as he was seen smiling and applauding the crowd as he left the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven Duncan Weir, who\u2019s on the water. Great player in his time but know your role\u2026 it sickened me, it really did,\u201d O\u2019Callaghan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see that coming round. If you look at Leinster\u2019s road to Europe, they have Edinburgh, they could possibly have Harlequins and then they could meet Glasgow in a semi-final.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all that hurt and all that in it, I think Leinster could absolutely bop them and in fact I half hope it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Glasgow seemed to target Prendergast throughout the game and that particularly irked O\u2019Callaghan, with the lock saying: \u201cThat\u2019s what sickened me about that because we\u2019ve all been there and we know it\u2019s confidence, and when your confidence goes it is shattering.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where your good team-mates and even your just fellow pros are just decent, and I didn\u2019t see a whole lot of decency there towards Sam by Glasgow.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Callaghan was joined on The Offload by fellow ex-Ireland international Tommy Bowe, who did take issue with the Munsterman over his stance.<\/p>\n

Bowe claimed that it was \u201ca bit rich coming from you\u201d given that \u201cMunster were renowned for this, you were renowned for going up and rubbing the head, rubbing it in.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Callaghan disagreed, however, responding: \u201cI never felt it was pick on the weak link. This in my own opinion, we went at everyone the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowe then asked: \u201cBut if you spotted a weak link?\u201d to which the former lock replied: \u201cYou would definitely try and exploit it and go for it, 100 per cent. [But] I know if someone carrying water onto our pitch would have a pop at someone like that, every one of the players would have pulled their head in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compared to Gavin Coombes moment<\/p>\n

O\u2019Callaghan then compared Hastings\u2019 response to getting sin-binned to Gavin Coombes, who smiled and pumped his fist at the Munster supporters during their clash with Leinster at the Aviva Stadium in October.<\/p>\n

Like Glasgow, who claimed a 38-17 victory at Scotstoun last weekend, Munster were comfortably ahead when Coombes was yellow-carded.<\/p>\n

\u201cI even go back to Gavin Coombes coming off the pitch. I know that would have been self-policed in our environment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing that in front of Declan Kidney, Jerry Holland, Niall O\u2019Donovan, any of those people, you get to that sideline\u2026 they would be highly embarrassed by conducting yourself that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lack of empathy there for Sam, it was like, \u2018burn him\u2019. Adam Hastings, you\u2019ve been there before as well, man. I remember him being a kid playing for Bath where everyone was looking to exploit him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re actually involved in his development and making him better. I\u2019ve always found it with them anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Callaghan added: \u201cYou\u2019re right, people will probably say the same about us, but I don\u2019t think it was done the same [way].<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like Saracens celebrating your mistake but I always felt we celebrated our team-mate doing something brilliant. If you poached the ball, I got excited, whereas it you dropped the ball, they got excited and that is the different in terms of mindset.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got absolute fuel and you know that\u2019s fuel. Genuinely, what Glasgow did there, I\u2019m telling you, they\u2019re going to get a bopping for that along the line and they deserve every bit of it, and I can\u2019t wait to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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