AFTER BECOMING legends thanks to their victory (and hilarious interviews) at the Olympics in Rio, the Paul and Gary O’Donovan are back in Ireland.
The pair arrived home to Skibbereen earlier this evening, and the townspeople did their best to ensure they got a hero’s welcome – the chairs were laid out:
Local restaurants had ‘Pull Like A Dog’ specials in honour of the big day:
And fans were stationed on top of vans in O’Donovan brothers t-shirts, primed to get the perfect picture:
Then, about an hour ago, the pair arrived into Skibbereen on top of a double decker bus to screams and cheers from what appeared to be a sizeable amount of the town’s population.
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The crowd even performed a Viking clap, just for them:
Welcome home boys! There won’t be a child washed in Skibb tonight.
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Great to have players like McCloskey step up when called upon. Conan too, both were good tonight for players with not much game time so far.
Henderson justified his starting berth. Hard to know if he or Ryan will start next week.
@Joe O’Regan: henderson won me over last 2 games being brillent james ryan is my fave irish player but hendo will start
@Joe O’Regan: I’m backing my lip reading skills and saying Ryan has broken his hand and will be out.
@Henry Bourke: yeah he looked very uncomfortable after the game , I think Baird takes his spot on the bench
Great to see Crowley showing his class, tried a bit hard perhaps but otherwise what a talent
@William O’Gorman: strikes me as a player that starts slowly and then ramps up quick , he felt his way into the game and was finishing it very strong , the cross field kick was a beauty
@William O’Gorman: Cross field kick was class. He offers more than Byrne definitely but Johnny is still the only man we won’t win the world cup without.
How schoeman wasn’t given a red!!!
Phenomenal – our defence as good as our attack. Hopefully no major injuries for next week.
@Daithi Mc Ghiollamhairtin: agree 100 percent they love to defend
My Gawd what a team,and they are getting better
Outstanding from ireland they love to defend and the attack is amazing bring on new zealand im very confident
Thought Ireland were fantastic as usual in defense and when stretching Scotland out wide punished them in attack. For all the talk from Scotland, that was disappointing. No directness in back play or power going forward , seemed to throw the ball backwards and be pushed back more often than not rather that taking Ireland on directly more in back play.. … Finn was also disappointing… Just seemed to be going through the motions chucking the ball around (no clever chips or anything to get over the gain line) , overall a hiding from ireland and game finished at half time. Next week is a different kettle of fish for Ireland and SA… Now the WC really starts…
@Stuart: Irelands tactic to deal with Russell was to give him as much time as he wanted , they just read his passes and turned over the receiver, Russell seemed to get more and more agitated and made no impact – he is incredibly overrated
Wonder what the SA water boy thought of that performance, not to mention Nienabar’s conspiracy theory! And he’s coming to Ireland next season???
Let’s leave the nonsense to Boks supporters! Nienabar got asked a loaded question about the fix and answered that he didn’t think Irl or Scot would stoop to that!
Looks like Lowe has a scratch on his eye,how long does that take to recover?
@Rugbyanbeer: 2-3 days , he’ll be fine
Hopefully Murray Kinsella and the 42 will finally accept that we have a world class team without bigging up the opposition for click bait reaction.