EVERY DAY’S A school day.

It’s odd, but Garry Ringrose already feels like a solid and steady part of the Ireland back-line, despite having just five caps to his name.

His youthful face and not-quite-fully-filled-out frame should make him look well out of place among some of the more hardened and grizzled men of Test rugby. Yet the speed with which he adapts to each new level of the game, the assurance he displays in making decisions and the accuracy he brings to contacts where you might expect him to be over-matched effectively mask any lack of experience.

The Leinster centre won’t admit that he’s acquitted himself well, but any comfort he does feel, he puts down to the experience picked on the way up through the grades: from U20s to Leinster A and then at senior level.

“Every game I play is getting bigger and bigger and there’s more on the line,” says the smiling 22-year-old. And as an outside centre, the responsibility on his shoulders is big as well, with difficult defensive reads to be made every time the opposition send the ball his way.