Dan Sheehan knows that only a handful of the lads he played rugby with in school are still playing now.
The 23-year-old's love of the game runs deep, however, and he confides that whether he was lining out for Lansdowne this weekend or, as he is doing, in a Champions Cup semi-final for Leinster, his sense of anticipation would be the same.
“I’d say in my year in school, there are probably only four or five still playing rugby. That’s something that’s probably surprised me a bit," said Sheehan.