“It was like an out-of-body experience”
JACK CONAN was at a set of traffic lights when it happened. He was making the short drive from the Dublin hotel where he and his Leinster team-mates were quarantining, following their Heineken Champions Cup semi-final against La Rochelle, to the province’s training facility at University College Dublin. Then, with the lights on red, bam!
“I was convulsing, the shaking took over my whole body,” the 28-year-old Leinster and Ireland No 8 says. “It wasn’t a feeling I’ve ever had in my life. It was like an out-of-body experience.”
What sparked such a response? Hearing Jason Leonard read out his name as part of the 2021 British & Irish Lions squad. He had been watching the announcement in the hotel car park. He’d listened to the likes of Alun Wyn Jones and Sam Warburton answer questions, but as the presentation
