Ciarán O'Driscoll
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And I was only a kid at the time.
I was 11, I'd say.
They were all looking forward.
There was a school tour now in the north side at that time.
Like, the bus would pull in and stuff.
And they wouldn't leave me going.
And they put me into a classroom.
And I was looking out the window, watching them all going away on the bus.
You know, that's what happened to me really.
Then I went into secondary school.
I didn't go to the local secondary school.
All my friends went there, like, you know.
I went to a place called Carrick-na-Vare.
And the reason they hold on to me, because I wouldn't have been a very good footballer, you know.
I was handy at Gaelic football.
I was just handy, that's all.
For out there, like, you know, I wouldn't, I'd never say I was a very good footballer or a very good hurler.
I was always kind of... In a soccer match, you get a 7 out of 10.
You never get a 10 out of 10.
You get a 7 out of 10 out of me.