Test debut for Edwin Edogbo could bolster Ireland’s firepower

Edwin Edogbo is a rare talent with the kind of physicality not many Irish players possess. So it is that Andy Farrell and Paul O’Connell could well thrust the 6ft 5in, 127kg lock into his Test debut in the Stade de France next Thursday on the opening night of the 2026 Six Nations. Not that Edogbo is especially young at 23, more that injuries, and specifically two ruptured Achilles in late 2021 and late 2023, have restricted him to 24 games for Munster. That’s also why his Test debut hasn’t come sooner. As Farrell showed in naming Paddy McCarthy on the bench against the All Blacks in Chicago, youth and lack of game time is no bar to a Test debut in his mind. Edogbo had only played two games...