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The 29-year-old helped his country to Grand Slam glory nine months ago, a decade after making his international bow as a wide-eyed teenager.
Ireland have provided the Magners League Champions in both the past two seasons, as well as on five out of eight occasions since the tournament was introduced in 2001/02.
And with three of the country's four provinces currently in the top five in the Magners League standings, things are certainly looking bright on the domestic scene as well as the European and international fronts.
D'Arcy, who starts for his country against Fiji at his home venue of the Royal Dublin Showground on Saturday evening, puts a lot of the most-recent success down to an increased competition for places among the provinces and the national team.
"I don't believe it has ever been this been this intense," D'Arcy told the Irish Examiner.
"This is probably the most competitive period, from Leinster right through to the international team.
"The so-called younger guys now have 15-20 caps, so they're not exactly novices any more. They might only be 21, 22 or 23 but they can't be called inexperienced. They've all played, they've all won a Grand Slam or achieved something big.
"It's just red-hot competition - which is the way the coaches want it."
That competition has seen his own international place come under threat, as well as that of fellow Leinster veteran Shane Horgan, but D'Arcy insists that he is delighted that competition for places continues to rise.
Injury saw D'Arcy lose his place in Ireland's starting XV to Paddy Wallace, with the Ulsterman still first-choice under Declan Kidney.
Horgan, a hero of so many Irish victories over recent years, had also become more of a squad man than a regular starter under Kidney but injury to Luke Fitzgerald has given the giant wing another chance to impress this weekend.
England team manager Martin Johnson is asking his players to give him something against New Zealand they've been unable to produce during his 18 months in charge of the national team: consistency over a whole game.
"New Zealand are never worse than very good," Johnson said. "We need consistency as a group for 80 minutes. Pressure is what it is all about and you do that on the field by being a united group of players.
"To beat the All Blacks you have to have a solid 80-minute game. They will get points on you at some point and you have to be resilient enough to bounce back."
England played well for 26 minutes against Australia two weeks ago but then stumbled and lost 18-9, while it was tied 9-9 with Argentina until the 70th minute last weekend before scoring a late try for a 16-9 win.
Australia is at Scotland on Saturday seeking to recover from the disappointment of a 20-20 draw at Ireland and Argentina is at Wales.
England is set for a tougher match than any of them, although the All Blacks have been below their sparkling best in wins over Wales and Italy.
The New Zealand team features 13 personnel changes to the second-string lineup that beat Italy 20-6 last weekend, with star flyhalf Dan Carter set to become his nation's all-time leading scorer as he returns from suspension
Carter needs just two points, the equivalent of one conversion, to overtake Andrew Mehrtens' tally of 967.
Winger Sitiveni Sivivatu is the only back to survive from the lineup in Milan, while the only forward to play consecutive weekends will be lock Tom Donnelly, who makes his fifth second-row appearance alongside veteran Brad Thorn.
While that gives New Zealand just about its strongest possible lineup, England still has about a dozen starters out injured and is set to give Ayoola Erinle his first international start out of position at inside center.
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