Sheahan calls time on ‘great adventure’

FRANKIE SHEAHAN yesterday described his time with Munster and Ireland as a “great adventure” after deciding to call time on a successful 14-year professional career.

One of the great characters of the game, the popular Cork man’s career spanned the amateur and professional eras, but the decision to call time was made for him, he said, after he aggravated a pectoral muscle in his 163rd and final game for Munster, against Ospreys in May.

“I had injured the pec against Connacht at Christmas and at that stage the medics reckoned it was a career-ending injury,” he explained. “But I’d been in this position before, had an operation on it in January, and with the help of the Munster medical team and fitness coaches, I got back into contention for selection for end-of-season games.