Sheriff will take no prisoners on return to old Shannon beat

RORY Sheriff’s favourite colour is blue, to the point that when he abandoned a representative rugby career he promptly joined the Garda Siochana.

He swapped a blue Leinster jersey for a blue uniform, and word is that the streets of Bray, County Wicklow, are safer these days with a six foot eight inch, 17 stone-plus giant on patrol.

On Sunday, along with his colleagues from County Carlow, he will be patrolling Thomond Park in a joust with former club Shannon, amidst hopes he can control that beat as well.