'It's never easy but it makes it a little bit easier, having some exposure to it,' says experienced back row Peter O'Mahony
Peter O'Mahony is backing Ireland's fitness levels to help them cope with the sizzling conditions expected for their France 2023 opener in Bordeaux.
World Rugby has confirmed that water breaks will operate at all World Cup matches this weekend, one per half at a 'natural break in play' as judged by the referee. "But in fairness to the management, they've certainly designed a lot of the back end of pre-season around some hot weather training, obviously we had Biarritz, we had some time in Portugal as well and all of them were very similar temperatures to here, and humidity.
"There were heat warnings and there was something similar in Biarritz until the actual match, it was very strange there was probably a 15 degree drop in temperature in the space of about 12 hours.
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