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"I am delighted to be playing in Dublin again," the big backrower said.
"My parents are coming over from Canada especially and my Irish relatives - aunties, uncles and cousins - will all be there in force, supporting Perpignan.
"I went to school in Ireland and wore the Ireland shirt for Irish Schools at Lansdowne Road. But this time I'll be wearing the shirt of the Catalan people. It will be a great joy and honour to play in the final of the Heineken Cup.
"We will have an advantage in that we know the Lansdowne Road ground from our semi-final against Leinster there so we will take something from that.
"But Toulouse are a great team. They are always there or thereabouts when it comes to the knock-out stages of the French championship - they're in the semi-finals again this year and they are seen as the best club in France.
"But we will not be thinking of their past record into account on the day, we will just be giving it everything to try to bring the Heineken Cup back to Perpignan."
Perpignan coach Olivier Saisset knows a thing or two about finals from playing in the invincible Béziers side that dominated French and European rugby in the 1970s.
"The players mustn't be stressed going into the final," he said.
"It's true that it's a special occasion, but it can't seem like that to the players. If they take fear into the match, they will not play as they should and then at the end, they will say, 'we didn't do anything, but if we had ...' and be filled with regrets.
"What is great about reaching the final is that it's the first time the Catalan people have been represented at the top level of European rugby."
