Leamy swaps green and red jerseys for wedding suit

Having been forced to hang up his rugby boots, due to a recurring injury last year, Ireland and Munster’s Denis Leamy closed the book on a fabulous trophy-winning career.

However, at the weekend, he opened another chapter in his life when he swapped the red jersey for a three-piece suit to marry his sweetheart.

His first sport was hurling, but that all fizzled out, when aged 15, he enrolled in the privately run Rockwell College boarding school, where rugby was as important as the religion classes.