Rugby football

If you look at fellas who played for Ireland in the 70s, second rowers or back rowers they're six foot maybe six one you know they're short asses compared to what's playing the game now the explosion in sports science has just transformed the game and world rugby are running as fast as they can to try and keep up because it is a crazily dangerous game and then there's the whole concussion element and If you have two people running, you can't condition your brain, obviously, but you can condition your body.

So if you're fitter and faster and stronger than your old man who brought you down to the rugby club to start in the first place, then it makes it a pretty dangerous pastime.

Did you ever feel like it was dangerous when you were playing it?

no i don't um i think if you go into it with an element of fear or that kind of you might get injured you might get hurt you're probably more likely to do that like for me coming from club at all belvedere even though i was a very late comer to rugby at 23 like we were taught the techniques and everything how to fall and all the rest and does that mitigate the risk yes absolutely it doesn't mean you're not going to get injured no not at all but i think if you go in with an element of i could get injured here you probably will get injured because your body's going to tense up a little bit and put you in the wrong situations um yeah luckily for me i had a couple of injuries in my time dislocated shoulder a couple of broken eye sockets but uh they kind of were just they just happened as opposed to um yeah like they just happened it was part of the game and you just kind of get on with it

Brian O'Driscoll isn't somewhere in Tallaght at the moment, unless he gets a rugby ball into his hand.

They're not even probably in the schools.

There is some schools, I can think of Clondalk and Rugby Club.

They do talk about

bad way for a bit there.

Post-rugby league.

But Macaulay Culkin, he's cancelled all his events in Australia.

So if you're going to watch Home Alone with Macaulay Culkin, you're out of luck.

How you doing? Yeah, we're in Scotland and that's great.

But also what's been great is this weekend's Rugger's proper old school in Derby.

Weekend, torrential rain, a named storm.

Austin.

But it's the job of politicians and civil society organizations to try to deal with these issues.

And so even though Ragby is useful to a certain sense, I don't think the fact that Ragby works should be an indication that politics would work in South Africa as well.

Maybe I wear rose-colored spectacles too often and do see it as the metaphor of what we could be.

But I want to talk about Zanin a little bit.

They would use, so it would be rugby football and association football.

So rugby football became slang and it was called rugger.

And posh kids today will still, yeah, they shortened it to Rugger.

And then association football was then shortened to ASOC, which then in turn became soccer.

And so then it was either play Rugger or soccer.

And that's where the word came from, which I think is crazy.

Then these rich kids obviously took it to America and you guys were like, football? You obviously had your own football.

So, so look, it's a...

Look, all these things are gonna be a benefit, and it's a plus to add to the outstanding facility that Rugby Club is.

Yeah.

And look, if you pass there around the night of the week, and you see, look, the lights are lit on there, and you see the amount of people that are out there, girls and boys and men or whatever, enjoying themselves.

It's everything, really.

And, and in Kilkenny, we're a bit unique.

There's only one rugby club in the whole county.

Yeah.