Brian O'Driscoll

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OTB Rugby · JOHN MULDOON: ’Stusdays are real!’ | Connacht vs the Springboks in 2007 | THE BANK OF IRELAND ROADSHOW SERIES · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

And and so it started there.

But um yeah, it was it's funny, you know, when when you find yourself in that environment, you

You think you're a million miles away and then all of a sudden you realise, gosh, m maybe I'm not.

And and my timing was really great coming on into the international setup because let's be honest, Ireland were shite in the nineties.

And and we won six games in like the whole decade of the five nations.

Um so you know, timing is is important in life and my timing

couldn't have been better.

So finding ourselves myself and Gordon Darcy coming into that camp and and then you know with sinker swim stuff.

So yeah um I I kind of look back and reflect and and think there was it was a great camp and and good memories initially from Galway.

The only bad thing was I I d I we we used to it was Warren Gatlin was coach and Eric Elwood was a senior player, obviously a a conic legend and from

That very first camp I got a nickname that I didn't want because I I was training with the team but I wasn't doing contact and we used to have this one minute drill which was horrible where it was really intense.

Might you know think it's only for a minute, but it was really physical and I w I kind of stepped out of it and Eric Elwood says, Oh, Frano and Neil Francis, because Neil Francis was legendary for playing all

And so I was known as Frano from day one.

I was like, No, I don't want to be compared to him.

And the weird thing is Frano was a play, a back line play that we used for the entirety of my career.

It was just a flat one misspass.

So like if if in doubt it was like I just shout into Roger sex, I was like, Frano if you felt as though he had an outside break.

So yeah, I hope he never hears that story.

So keep that.

Between us, yeah.

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