British and Irish Memories: Rob Kirney to give up Gaeli football and play the day that was the future of lions in the question | Rugby Union News

Rob Kirney retired from the Rakby game in 2021 as one of the most decorating players in Irish history, leaving this sport after four titles of six titles, four victories in the Champions Cup and two rounds of a British and Irish lion in 2009 and 2013.

For many, it is better to remember his exciting black shows against South Africa during the 2009-tour when he truly declared himself on the world stage, indicating an almost unlimited ability under a high ball of back.

After I grew up from the province of Louth on the eastern coast of Ireland, Kirney’s majestic power stems in any small part of the fact that the Rakbi game is far from the love of his first hometown, nor the sport that most of it played. This, rather, is galaly football.

“I was from a relatively sports family, but I am from the province of Lott, which had no many rugs. It was a real football boycott,” says Kirney Sky Sports.

“I was lucky because the two seasons did not collide or collide a lot and I can play a lot of galaly football during the summer and the Rajabi in the winter.

“The rugby game was a real love, and while I always missed Gaeli football, I am happy with the way I chose.”

From the stranger to the seventh cousin of former US President Joe Biden, Kirney looks at the 2009 Lyons tour and reveals the third test against Sprinjus to avoid a white chain after two very narrow opening defeats than just a game for Rajabi.

It was a day when the future of the tour was in the roaming question, and the players felt it.

“There was a lot of pressure on the team because it suddenly was not just the 2009 category,” says Kirney.

“We felt that he was borne real responsibility for the future of the black shirt and what it means to people. There was a great deal of chatting about it during the week.

“It is clear that Ian Mackenik (the 2009 lead coach), the Leones’ legend for many years, was not shy of highlighting this and setting a real responsibility for us to perform and win.

“There were real question marks about the future of lions and that was very difficult for us as players because there was only more than 80 minutes of the rugby game on the line.

“The legacy and history of lions, what they represent, what we wanted to think of future generations in lions was everything at the test.”

Such a novel faded and then exploded consciously due to the defeat of the lions chain that was guaranteed to extend it when Morne Stein achieved a 54-meter penalty at an altitude in Pretoria with the final kick of the second test to win South Africa 28-25.

The 2005 tour of New Zealand and 3-0 series during the Klaiv Woodward era proved a disaster, while the 2001 round to Australia during the reign of Graham Henry testified that Al-Aswad had given the opportunity to win a 2-1 chain loss in the end.

In 2009, defeat means that lions will be without a chain victory since 1997 for at least 16 years until 2013 – a tour of Australia that will continue to win 2-1.

For a lot, Whitewashes was 3-0 consecutive unpalatable and perhaps worth ending the traditions of the four-round such as.

“Fortunately, we have truly performed well and won very well,” says Kerani, as I played angrily black to secure 28-9 victory.

“I was in Fantasy Land: Whoever expects to miss to test Horscer -Horder”

Earlier in 2009, Kearney was part of Six Nations Grand Slam – the first for Ireland since 1948 – but he clearly remembers watching the Lions Squad advertisement alone, and he unusually suffers from a state of mumps.

“I remember exactly where I was as I was very sick at that time, in fact,” he says. “I didn’t play with Lindster within a few months and I was at home on my own.

“I was incredibly exposed, but I was suffering from a bit, which is very dangerous and I was not sure if I was going to go on a tour. From where I was that day how the tour ended for me was very surprising.”

It is easy to forget that this will eventually be the effect of Kirney, but Wells Lee Bernin has created himself as the first full -back option, as he struggled with the first due to an unfamiliar injury.

Bern suffered a 37 -minute foot injury from the opening test in Derban, then broke a dangerous thumb in training to exclude him completely.

Kirney was distinguished from the bench and began a second test in which he slipped into an attempt in the seventh minute only.

“I was not disappointed because I knew that Lee Bern was always in the driving seat to start the first test. I picked up a dead leg against the western boycott that left me for two weeks, to be honest, I was completely pleased with my team.

“I did not expect to be because it is unusual, it is unusual to pick up one of these seat positions.

“The second test was tremendous and a real dream. I thought I was living in a fictional land because eight days ago, the team was not expected. Here I started, and I recorded the opening experience.

“That entire game was also imagination, because there are days in your career where you are completely in your flow.

Although his performance was amazingly good in South Africa in that summer, the two opening tests brought, however, a black defeat.

For a 23 -year -old player, he has proven heavily conflicting.

“It was so. I did Sky Sports An interview with Miles Harrison after that and everything was talking about my performance, but the only thing that I could think was lost the chain and let us slip.

“I was in some dressing rooms with disappointment over the years, but I will always remember that one has been completely destroyed.

“It shows you sport is the most narrow and finest margin, and for this reason we love the game a lot. It was really unfortunate because the decision would be very special.

“If I look at the lowest period of my profession, the second test in 2009 is there.”

“The injury before the 2013 tour was very stressful – she did not have the same feeling of achievement.”

Four years later, Kirney was out against the background of 2012, when he won the title of best European player of the year, but a knee strings before his final match for the season, suddenly left his 2013 Lions’ chances in a real doubt.

After traveling to Hong Kong with the Lions team, Kirney left waiting in the hospital room after a examination that would determine whether or not he could continue in Australia – a moment of tremendous anxiety.

“It was very stressful. Linderster had the challenge cup final a day before we left and the knee strings did not feel properly in warm up, so I had to withdraw.

“We traveled to Hong Kong to play the barbarians there and you were very worried. If the examination does not return well, I would have returned to Dublin.

Fortunately, the medical staff was happy because it would not be long -term and returned to the field after two weeks.

“By this stage, Lee Hafbini was really playing well, and the goal kick was great and put himself in this front position to demand the 15th shirt.”

In fact, the blatant reality of Elite Sport means that the same success and conditions at the top are considered rare.

Kirney was forced to wait until the fifth round game game in 2013 due to the knee strings, and on this point there were only two formulas to go before the first test.

In the end, Halfpenny played so well that he had a chain title in Australia while Kirney missed the three tests – which led to more tests, he says, because of his 2009 memories.

“It was difficult because I haven’t tried incredible levels of playing in the tests in 2009. When you get a flavor and a feeling of that, this is the only thing you want to do again.

“I was disappointed that Tommy Boy was injured and there was an internal and external chat that might be transmitted to one of the wings and became 15 years old. There was little hope.

“He did not do you incredibly well, so I knew that writing was on the wall. Since then, it was the only way that I would have entered was an injury to him.

“I did not play in any of the test matches, and because I did in 2009, 2013 I did not have the same feeling of achievement for me.

“Although there is a great participation for all players and the entire team part of a series’s winning, it is not the same if you are not in the test team.”

“I don’t get 100 Ireland’s caps larger mine – I wanted very much.”

A source of the distinguished consistency of Ireland during the reign of Joe Schmidt, Kerney sits outside the top ten in most covers in Irish history.

In 2018, he became the first player of his nation starting in all the ten tests of two Grand Slam campaign – a record he still holds alone.

If we look back, though, it precedes the 38 -year -old names that are somewhat amazing as the largest regret of his professional life.

“My biggest low point will not get 100 pieces of my country. It has always been something I wanted strongly. It is the elite club.

“I finished 95 Irish caps – 98 if I included three blacks – but I missed 30 games with an injury and 15 or so was a small wheel in the soft tissue or injuries in the knee strings that could have been going on my way easily.

“I always tell myself it is just a number, but it was a number I wanted to reach it.”

In terms of prominent points, Kirney’s mind turns black.

“To become a lion in the first place.

“Playing your country in the World Cup is incredible and something every child dreams about in sports. But black is very special, and it has been ranked a little higher than that.

“There is a great deal of status and date associated with this summit. It is definitely the most distinctive things you have achieved from a rugby perspective.”

“Without fans, there will be no new competition and research by letshost that displays local companies that bear the names of local domains, the key when fans search for the location and how to get there” – Kearney