Dan Sheehan: 'We have been good this year at making sure we’re not getting ahead of ourselves'

"We have in the past where we have come up short, probably looking too far ahead or maybe getting too complacent in either URC or Champions Cup, so it's important."

CROKE PARK RETURN: Dan Sheehan is looking forward to playing in front of a sold out Croke Park but not getting carried away by the occasion.  Pic:Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

There is no shortage of Leinster players, coaches and other employees with roots that run through GAA soil, but you wouldn’t have guessed that on the basis of their media day before the club's return to Croke Park this weekend.

One, Robin McBryde, was a Welshman. Ross Byrne did play football with Kilmacud Crokes for a few years but it was more a fling than a full-on love affair. And Dan Sheehan’s slim personal history is, if anything, on a par with McBryde’s.