Donncha recalls schools final pressure

Donncha O’Callaghan admitted yesterday the most pressurised time of his rugby life came in the build-up to the 1997 Munster Schools Cup final.

The Munster star said the weeks before that schools decider, the day and everything that went with it, was up there in terms of the biggest games he played during his career.

“I won a senior medal that year [with CBC Cork] but it was the most pressure rugby I ever played,” he said at SEAT’s official launch of their schools competitions sponsorship yesterday.