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"I know, when you go on the Lions tours, some of the players get pissed off with some of the Irish guys because they give out to each other so much, but that's what we believed in. It's the same across the other Irish provinces, too, but I think we've tempered that a good bit and found a good balance with it. "Back then, in the Munster changing room, you did't hold back from each other. On the training field, if someone didn't know stuff, we didn't hold back on one another. People didn't take it personally. We have this thing that whenever things got a little bit heated, we used to have this 'Kiss and Make Up' rule. "I'm sure every team does it, but we'd all gather in a circle and whoever got into an argument, they had to kiss on the lip and make up before training would finish. From a HR point of view, and every other business in the world, you'd probably be in jail for it! But it was our way of saying, it stays on the rugby pitch."You can see what O'Connell is talking about in this Sky Sports clip from 2017, two years after the second row played his last game with Munster. The practice started in training but was often applied after matches. Here, we see CJ Stander and Peter O'Mahony making up in the 'away' changing rooms after tearing at each other during a league win over Glasgow Warriors. https://twitter.com/SkySportsRugby/status/820355783774900228 "We can be tough on each other but it stays on the rugby pitch," Paul O'Connell explained to Sam Warburton. "You can't take it with you. "When you have to kiss someone else on the lips, it generally ends up being a bit of a laugh." WATCH HOUSE OF RUGBY HERE: Related Articles.
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