PETER and Jessica O’Mahony were glowing throughout a picture perfect day for their friend’s wedding over the weekend.
The Irish rugby captain was celebrating an old schoolmate’s nuptials.
The venue for Saturday’s joyful occasion was Adare Abbey in Limerick.
It saw Peter ‘Kelogs’ Kelleher, a former school teammate at Cork’s Presentation Brothers College, tie the knot with partner Miriam.
Jessica shared a photo album from the entirety of the sun-soaked day that was captioned: “A gorgeous weekend for an even more gorgeous couple.”
Her spouse’s Instagram post was simply accompanied by the recap of ‘Great day celebrating Miriam & Kelogs.’
The veteran back-rower will be back in the trenches before you know it with Munster as their URC season kicks-off on September 21 with an inter-pro date with Connacht.
The anticipation for that evening clash at Thomond Park was ratcheted up by Connacht boss Pete Wilkins confirming that Mack Hansen will make his long-awaited competitive return from injury.
O’Mahony’s international peer had been sidelined for all of 2024 until he got some minutes under his belt in a pre-season friendly last week.
But Wilkins confirmed that the Australian-born star has finally overcome a troublesome shoulder problem that has seen plenty of bumps along the road to recovery post-operation.
The last time the two provinces met in May proved to be a completely one-sided affair.
Munster charged into the play-offs atop the regular season standings with a 47-12 rout of The Westerners.
Connacht missed out on the post-season altogether as they wound up in 11th place.
But like Leinster, The Reds were ultimately caught out in the one-off format by a more clinical Glasgow Warriors outfit.
Ahead of the new season’s bow, Munster chief Graham Rowntree will finally name an official successor to O’Mahony as the club’s captain.
Tadhg Beirne and Diarmuid Barron shared the honour last season while Jack O’Donoghue and Alex Kendellen have been identified as the squad’s future leaders.
Earlier this week Rowntree reflected on that sobering halt to the 2023/24 campaign that had looked as if they were steamrolling to another URC crown.
He said of their home disappointment: “We lost one game by seven points. That can happen. We took some learnings from it. We banked that.
“I’ve not done a huge post-mortem on it.
“We reflected on the game and then we went to the pub. It wasn’t a deep dive, we didn’t drill into it.
“Of course, we looked at aspects of the game and we covered off the season and went and had a social. We move on.”