IRELAND INTERNATIONALS JAMES Lowe and Jamie Osborne have penned contract extensions with Leinster.
Their previous deals were inked in 2023 as they follow Jack Conan and Ryan Baird, whose extensions were announced yesterday, in committing their futures to the province.
Lowe, 32, moved from New Zealand to join Leinster in 2017 and is on track to break Shane Horgan’s try-scoring record of 69.
His 61 tries in 85 appearances have helped Leinster to a Champions Cup and four URC crowns in that spell.
The crowd-favourite winger was named in the Six Nations Team of the Championship in 2023 and ’24 as Ireland achieved back-to-back titles.
Osborne has established himself in the Ireland set-up to cap his growing reputation with Leinster.
The versatile 23-year-old back has scored six tries in 57 appearances since his professional debut in 2021.
Leinster have not announced the lengths of the new deals.
Osborne’s younger brother Andrew also signed his first senior contract with the province yesterday.
Meanwhile, Craig Casey (knee), Jean Kleyn (thigh), and Jack O’Donoghue (ankle) have increased their training loads as Munster prepare to face Glasgow on Friday.
Good positive comments from both Paul and Niall ………how many caps do ye have between ye lads?
Oh right the old “can’t comment unless you’ve played at the highest level” crap? Easy to throw that out when you don’t like what u hear…
Hi Alex, I never said they weren’t entitled to their opinions, but I thought they were unnecessarily harsh, especially the ‘#notgoodenough’ …..the team is representing our country and giving it their best shot in difficult circumstances. Remember these guys haven’t played together before this tournament and while some of their play was rushed and error ridden, there were some nice phases of play too.
I for one am happy with their efforts. Best of luck to the U20′s tomorrow night.
I agree with u they were too harsh but the how many caps u got thing just gets my goat. Anyway rock on Ireland!
Loving this live streams on youtube business!
They really should have won that. All the possession. Sloppy passes, and panicking everytime they got the ball instead of being patient and going through some fazes,
Any team with Keatley at out half is going to struggle
Dont think munster will
Shocking result
#notgoodenough for fixture Irish players
none of those Ireland players are going to go onto be major talents, the only guy there that has great potential is Jack McGrath. Guys like Noel Reid have spent far too long on the Leinster A team – while that South African line up is way more talented … goes to show how much more choice they have at every position – they simply have a way bigger factory of players.
That’s the thing! The pool of talent there compared to here is much bigger! We don’t have outstanding players coming through