John O’Sullivan

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1,338 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Jul

John O’Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But as a result of it, though, like France, like they went and played and a couple of players will be in that wider French squad as a result of it.

So the downside is obviously you take a hockey, like it's not like we're going to play three Mickey Mouse teams.

You've got to travel to the other end of the world.

You're getting maybe Japan because they're going to have to travel for us.

Obviously you are playing the All Blacks and you are playing Australia who are potentially turning a corner.

So the chance is that you take a hiding in one or two of those matches.

But even that's not necessarily a bad thing.

To give a player two or three caps

that you really think has something.

I'm just going to pick Bryn Ward as a wild example.

He's not in the squad, I was just going to say.

But for someone like him, does he deserve an Irish cap?

You could easily argue the toss on that.

With someone like Bryn Ward getting three caps against Australia, Japan and New Zealand, that's his learning curve.

You're going to get to this level.

Or Brian Gleeson, you're basically going, you want to be at this level in 12 months' time, here's your bar.

And this is potentially going back to something that John has said, the gap between one and two.

You give Caelan Dorris a rest, you're going against without your captain, you're going without a leader.

And if you start to pull elsewhere in the squad, does it look a little bit thin?

So we're kind of talking against ourselves.

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