INSIDE THE MIND OF… WILL ADDISON Joe Schmidt My dad Kingspan.

“My favourite place in the world is

in Austria. I used to go skiing there when I was younger.” “A phone call in January 2015 kinda changed my life. It was telling me he knew I had a mum from Fermanagh and that he was keeping an eye on me. It was totally out of the blue. The fact he knew me absolutely blew me away. Joe’s the best coach in the world. His search for perfection never stops.”

“is an organic dairy farmer in Cumbria and some of my mother’s people are farmers in

Ireland. After the November Tests I had a week off, so I went back to the farm and was put to work. From Chicago to the Aviva to the

milking parlour.”

“There’s not much that compares with a European night at the

It’s a special ground. A cathedral. Playing in front of a packed crowd there gives me tingles

up the spine.”