Former Ireland captain, Keith Wood, has spoke of his complete sense of shock and disbelief at the death of his close friend, Anthony Foley.
An understandably emotional Wood said he just couldn't get his head around the dreadful news. "It's just wrong, it just doesn't make any sense," he said.
"When you're talking to people of my age, early 40's, it brings a sense of mortality very close. I think there was a huge shock around the country for a young man to fall in his pomp.
"I was out of the country yesterday. I had very poor coverage on my phone but the messages came in. It was almost as it if was some kind of sick joke, I thought that couldn't possibly be true. I was trying to get down off the mountain to get coverage. It didn't make any sense yesterday, it doesn't make any sense today. It's just unbelievably disturbing.
"He was a one club man. He played for one Munster his whole life. To play over 200 matches for Munster is incredible.
"He didn't speak a huge amount but everything he said was perfect. When I was in with Ireland I'd nod at him to say something because sometimes you just needed a point of clarity. Anthony just knew what clarity was. He knew the right thing to say at the right time, he knew the right thing to do at the right time.
"With Munster that seemed to take on an additional, extra belief because he knew it, he'd played it, he'd lived it, he knew it and he was able to articulate it.
"There's something wrong when a father buries his son, that's truly dreadful.
"For me I think of Brendan, Shiela, Orla and Rosie his two sisters but it's Olive, his wife, who was so perfect for him, and his two boys who at a young age have to go on without their father. It's heartbreaking."
