Donncha O'Callaghan

Donncha O'Callaghan was born in Cork in 1979. He began playing rugby at Highfield Rugby Club before going on to play for the CBC Cork side which won the Munster Schools Senior Cup in 1998. In the same year, he played on the Ireland U19 World Championship winning side which included other future stars like Brian O'Driscoll and Paddy Wallace. First capped for Ireland in 2003, he has played more than 70 times for Ireland, forming a formidable second row partnership with Paul O'Connell. He has won the Heineken Cup twice with Munster and has been on two tours with the British and Irish Lions, having the honour of captaining the Lions against the Southern Kings in South Africa in 2009. Donncha married his long time girlfriend, Jennifer Harte, in December 2009, and their first child, Sophie, was born in August 2010.