Frankie Sheahan (born August 27, 1976) is a retired professional Irish

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

player. During his career, Sheahan played for

Munster Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" ( ga, rí ruirech). Following the ...

from 1996 until 2009 and for

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from 2000 until 2007. Sheahan played his whole career as a hooker. He finished with Munster in 2009 after playing 163 over 14 years. He played his last game for

on 15 May 2009 in 36-10

Celtic League The Celtic League is a pan-Celtic organisation, founded in 1961, that aims to promote modern Celtic identity and culture in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man – referred to as the Celtic nations; it places part ...

win over the Ospreys at

Thomond Park Thomond Park is a stadium in Limerick in the Irish province of Munster. The stadium is owned by the Irish Rugby Football Union and has Munster Rugby, Shannon RFC and UL Bohemian RFC as tenants. Limerick FC played home games in Thomond Park fr ...

where the team also received the trophy as 2008–09 Celtic League winners. Sheahan agreed to join French

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club

Brive Brive-la-Gaillarde (; Limousin dialect of oc, Briva la Galharda) is a commune of France. It is a sub-prefecture and the largest city of the Corrèze department. It has around 46,000 inhabitants, while the population of the agglomeration was 75 ...

for the 2009–10 season, he was offered the choice of a two-year deal or a one-year contract with the option of a second season and has chosen the latter. "I spent the weekend there taking in the Brive-Montauban match, there’s a load of ambition," Sheahan said. On May 15 he picked up an injury during the Celtic League win over the Ospreys and aggravated a chest problem. He had been struggling with the injury for the past four months and on 21 July 2009, he announced his immediate retirement from the game after undergoing a scan. Following retirement, Sheahan set up an international speakers bureau and talent management agency. He also worked for a period as a rugby agent and the media for both Sky Sports and RTE. In 2013 , Sheahan found The Pendulum Summit, a business and leadership conference which takes place in Dublin, Ireland every January and NY also.

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Munster profile
*https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/sheahan-gets-two-year-ban-1.365893 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheahan, Frankie 1976 births Irish rugby union players Living people Canadian rugby union players Canadian people of Irish descent Sportspeople from Ontario Ireland international rugby union players Munster Rugby players Cork Constitution players University College Cork RFC players People educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork Rugby union hookers Ireland Wolfhounds international rugby union players Rugby union players from County Cork