Sheahan’s legal team hopeful on appeal

FRANKIE SHEAHAN’S legal team is hopeful that the Munster and Ireland hooker will have a two-year doping ban overturned when his appeal against the sentence is heard on September 1 next.

The ERC confirmed yesterday that Sheahan had lodged an appeal against last month’s decision by the Independent Judicial Tribunal and that it would be heard on September 1.

The original tribunal found Sheahan guilty of a doping violation and subsequently banned him from taking part in any rugby until May 2005.