Hugo Keenan

Hugo Keenan was born in Dublin in 1996, the kind of place where boys still run barefoot through rain before they learn the shape of a game. He grew into a fullback for Leinster and Ireland, scoring tries in Moscow sevens and breaking Italian defences during the Six Nations. His body remembered speed before thought, and each match seemed to return him to that young Dublin certainty: distance is only a suggestion, and momentum belongs to whoever refuses to release it.