Colleagues rally round Sheahan

DAVID WALLACE and Ronan O’Gara have thrown their weight behind Munster colleague Frankie Sheahan’s appeal against a doping conviction, to be heard in Dublin next Monday.

Sheahan himself was in Thomond Park on Friday to watch Munster play their seasonal opener against Rotherham, still unsure of his future ahead of his appeal and ahead also of the naming of the Irish squad to travel to the World Cup in Australia in October.

Wallace, himself an asthma sufferer, actually played in the game against Rotherham on Friday evening, and admitted afterwards that he was never aware of any danger in using a Ventolin inhaler.