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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? STEPHEN KEOGH THEN: Stephen Keogh won 85 caps for Leinster over five seasons between 2006 and 2011. NOW: He is Head of Retail Sales for the south and west at New Ireland Assurance and married to Niamh with three children Mollie (8), Frankie (5) and Zoe (3). 62 | www.leinsterrugby.ie
Stephen Keogh was one of them. You know the type, a hard-nosed Limerick man steeped in the best traditions of Munster rugby which amounts to a blood and guts approach to this game for warriors. Back in 2006, the back-row forward crossed the great divide in order to bring some of that meanness into a Leinster pack of forwards that seemed demoralised. “I was playing with Bruff RFC, but my school St Munchin’s was affiliated to Shannon where Colm Tucker Senior, who unfortunately passed away, was very good to me in school. I lived out in the country and he used to drop me to the bus. So, naturally, Shannon was always in my mind to settle into as my club. “The world was a much bigger place back then,” he recalls. “When you travelled to play in Clongowes or Blackrock - they were the two big schools in Leinster at that stage - it just felt like a different place. You had that bitterness even then, going up to try and win in those places.” When school was done and a degree pocketed from UCC, Keogh returned home to the bosom of all-conquering Shannon. Stellar form for the club led to 54 Munster caps between 2003 and 2006, marking Stephen as one of the up-andcoming forwards in Irish rugby at the age of 23. “At one time, it was one culture versus another culture. Dublin was moving ahead in relation to the Celtic Tiger. Limerick and Cork were that bit behind. “It was a clash of two different cultures. You had that between Ireland’s two best provinces and one of them, Munster, was the best in Europe. “You always look over the wall at what the neighbour has and Munster had Heineken Cups when Leinster didn’t. “Then, there was the importance of Irish selection. When you throw all of that together, sparks are going to fly and they did back then. “But, it was great. The public bought into the rivalry and the atmosphere was all the better for it.” However, Stephen decided to take the unusual move of signing for Leinster, just weeks before sitting on the bench for that epic 2006 Heineken Cup semi-final in which Munster won the day once again. “While I had played a lot for Munster, I was ahead of the curve in my appearances because there had been a spate of injuries that opened up game time for me. www.leinsterrugby.ie | 63
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