Sheahan has spring in step to face new challenges

FRANKIE SHEAHAN appreciates the irony. Last April in Toulouse, the Munster hooker presented himself for a random drug test that would change his life - and almost wrecked his career.

Now seven months later, he returns to France with a grim determination to put the ERC debacle behind him, to get on with his life and help Munster on the first step towards Heineken Cup glory.

Today, Munster take on Bourgoin at Stade Pierre Rajon and Sheahan will be anxious to prove he has lost none of his appetite for the game, despite the manner in which he was left bruised and occasionally bewildered.