Former rugby star Donncha O'Callaghan talks about Doireann Garrihy's wedding, revealing a prank he and Carl Mullan pulled on the bride. He also discusses the challenges of life after professional sports and the impact of Anthony Foley's passing.
Former rugby star Donncha O’Callaghan has opened up about Doireann Garrihy’s wedding day – admitting he and Carl Mullan tried to prank the star on her big day. The Munster legend joined his former 2FM Breakfast co-star on his podcast Phone Truths with Carl Mullan to talk about Garrihy’s big day. But the pair also revealed they pulled a prank on the Dancing with the Stars host at the ceremony, with Donncha admitting it could’ve went wrong.
Donncha dared Carl to dramatically pause during his Prayer of the Faithful in the service. 'It became a bit between us on how long could you leave it for the Lord Graciously Hear Us bit,' said Donncha. 'Everyone thought you had froze. Everyone thought you didn’t know what was happening. And I knew it was happening… then my hands started sweating because to be honest even though I was in on the joke, I didn’t like it,' he laughed. Jokes aside, Donncha and Carl couldn’t be happier for Doireann and new husband Mark. 'Mark’s speech, oh my goodness. How he spoke about his family, Doireann’s family and Doireann herself... I was like 'wow' - it was great,' added Donncha. Opening up about life after sport, Donncha recalls how in the first week after retiring from rugby he was in the gym and realised that life outside a professional set-up was a little harder than he expected! 'I got this nervy feeling in behind my shoulder blade. Now it’s real easy to fix, you just go get physio. So I rang the physio and said, ‘can I get in there?’ and now you’re out of the circle, they’re like ‘yeah we have an appointment next Thursday at 4pm’. But it’s Tuesday?! … In the game you have that fixed within 20 minutes.' Donncha also opened about the phone call he received when his former teammate Anthony Foley passed away suddenly in 2016
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