MARK O’KEEFFE IS reeling off the list of games and training camps he’s been involved in across the summer before the realisation hits him.
“This is literally my first break since 3 January,” says the former Lansdowne man, who now lines out for Major League Rugby’s Chicago Hounds and the USA Eagles.
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