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For a small town, Enniskillen has given birth to more than its share of international sportsmen, amongst them Olympic gold medal sprinter Robert Kerr, champion heavyweight boxer Gordon Ferris and ex-Celtic goalkeeper Michael McGovern.

Now it can claim its first international rugby player. Finlay Bealham made the long haul from his native Canberra to Dublin on the strength of a grandmother from Fermanagh’s county town.

As Ireland’s newest prop, her grandson has followed a familiar inter-continental path into the Six Nations, so familiar that almost 40 have made the trip over the last two seasons.