Young Irish stars hoping to take Adare by storm

TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Peter O’Keeffe from Douglas has been a professional for less than six months but through hard work and perseverance lines up alongside Europe’s elite at Adare this week.

Having learned the rudiments of the game from around the age of 12 under professional Dave White at Frankfield, O’Keeffe represented Munster Boys before making the Irish youths team.

By this stage, he had developed into a strapping 6ft 4inch, 16 stone giant more physically suited to the second-row of a rugby pack.