The Irish hooker is feeling excellent after battling fitness issues for the past year.
The hooker has had a torrid time with injury over the past 18 months and missed all of Ireland's World Cup warm-up clashes with a hamstring injury.
“There’s obviously two ways of looking at it. You’d be thinking ‘maybe I haven’t got a couple of games under the belt, which I would have liked’, but at the same time my body feels unbelievably healthy, so it’s great. In addition to Kelleher and Sheehan, prop Dave Kilcoyne and back-rower Jack Conan were sidelined during the build-up to the tournament.
Kelleher initially stole a march in the quest to become Rory Best’s long-term successor courtesy of some standout displays across 2021, which led to training with the British and Irish Lions.
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