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Upbeat Cooney ready to kick on

BY THEIR very nature, scrum-halves want to get things moving. But for John Cooney at Ulster, he has had to marry the need to shift with the art of settling.

With more than 50 games for Ulster under his short strings since joining from Connacht in 2017, Dublin-born Cooney is calmly nudging the province in the right direction. Initially signed as a replacement for the popular Ruan Pienaar, the Pro14 winner had to prove his

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