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Rian McFarlane O\u2019Shea from Presentation Brothers College alongside Jack Meaney from St. Munchins College ahead of the Pinergy Munster Schools Senior Boys Cup final. Pic: \u00a9INPHO\/Ryan Byrne<\/p>\nFrankie \u00d3g Sheahan is continuing a proud family tradition as he lines out in another Munster Schools Senior Cup final on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The PBC vice-captain\u2019s father, ex-Ireland international Frankie, won his Senior Cup in 1993. His first cousins, Jacob and Danny, featured together in the Pres pack for the 2022 final defeat to Crescent.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dad played rugby for Ireland, so that\u2019s been a driving factor for me,\u201d says Frankie \u00d3g. \u201cEver since I\u2019ve been young, all I wanted to do was come to Pres. And then just seeing my cousins in sixth year, it\u2019s really a family school.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see your relatives playing and from a young age, that\u2019s what you want to do. A lot of lads here would think the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cDanny is involved in the Munster Academy now. He\u2019s injured at the moment, but he’s trying to push on. Jacob is playing with Con. He was involved with Ireland Under-20s as well. My uncle played 21s as well for Ireland, so it’s a real rugby family.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Frankie \u00d3g, who captained Pres to Junior Cup silverware in 2023, has already reached the holy grail of schools rugby as a replacement in 2024. This will be their fifth consecutive final, following two Junior Cup deciders with three Senior Cup showpieces.<\/p>\n
After their CBC disappointment last year, the scrum-half is determined to bow out on a high.<\/p>\n
Rian McFarlane O\u2019Shea from Presentation Brothers College alongside Jack Meaney from St. Munchins College ahead of the Pinergy Munster Schools Senior Boys Cup final. Pic: \u00a9INPHO\/Ryan Byrne<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s easy to take for granted, but we train six times a week. That sort of work, it’s being rewarded.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, there’s a lot of external noise. It’s really important not to get complacent. That’s the main enemy. We’ve had a few good results and a lot of people are talking, so hopefully we can just stick to our game and perform for Wednesday.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The experience of beating top South African teams to win the NextGen Global Schools Challenge in December has been a highlight of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was unlike anything we’ve ever experienced,\u201d says Sheahan. \u201cThe main thing was the scrummaging. It was a different sort of game. The physicality, you’ve seen the South Africans, they’re known for that, and the sort of intensity that they brought.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried to take the best parts of their game and bring it into our own game, and that’s stood to us so far this campaign.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hooker Ronan Twomey was at the heart of the front-row action in Spain and he concurs with Sheahan\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was surreal, really. We went over and we just wanted to make it an experience of a lifetime. That\u2019s really what did happen,\u201d says Twomey.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt definitely brought us on. The parents really enjoyed it too, but it brought us all a lot closer together. It’s stood to us so far, and hopefully it can in the coming days.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Twomey has scored four tries in 90 minutes of knockout rugby, but will miss the final due to a collarbone fracture sustained in the 54-0 semi-final victory over CBC.<\/p>\n
Head coach Ger Burke said Twomey tried \u201ceverything short of black magic to see if there was any way\u201d to play, but noted that their top try-scorer would find a way to contribute to PBC’s preparation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just about giving the lads a word of encouragement, or putting a hand on their back if they’re down, and just giving them a hand whenever they need it. Whatever I can do, I\u2019ll do,\u201d explains Twomey.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s all about the lads, just giving them one last push, and hopefully we can get over the gain line on the day.\u201d Will he be nervous watching on?<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ll have trouble sleeping the night before,\u201d Twomey replies, \u201cbut listen, I trust the boys and I back the boys in there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n ST MUNCHIN\u2019S: R Angley; D Mullane, B Minogue, M Delmont Ferrera, E Quinn, O Madden, T O\u2019Brien; B Meagher, M Landers, C Dillon; Callum McGrath, Cillian McGrath; R O\u2019Brien, J Meamney (capt), D Foley.<\/p>\n
\n Replacements: O Gleeson, K Yoxall, S Bissette, S McGlynn,. A Fennell, D Newman, S Frost, M Keane, P O\u2019Driscoll, D O\u2019Driscoll.<\/p>\n
\n PRESENTATION BROTHERS COLLEGE: D Murphy; O Healy, A Moloney, H Galvin Carty, B O\u2019Callaghan, D Nolan, F Sheahan; F O\u2019Sullivan, N McCarthy, D Sheehy; T Murray, C Bruhn; E Dooley, C Bohan, R MacFarlane O\u2019Shea.<\/p>\n
\n Replacements: S McKenna Carroll, M Fitzgerald, M Riordan, R Dillon, G Coughlan, B Waters, L O\u2019Brien, J Healy, G McSweeney, D O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankie \u00d3g Sheahan is continuing a proud family tradition as he lines out in another Munster Schools Senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-352513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}