Kieran Duggan had his car packed with “two-times the amount of baggage for a family of four” and three rowing Olympians.
A GOOD SAMARITAN found himself giving a lift to Olympic Champions Paul O’Donovan, Fintan McCarthy and fellow Team Ireland rower Natalie Long back to Cork from Dublin Airport on Tuesday.
Skibbereen native McCarthy was going only as far as his current accommodation in Ballincollig to drop off bags before returning to Paris later in the week for the Olympic closing ceremony. O’Donovan, meanwhile, a doctor, was back to work in Cork City on Wednesday and will remain in Cork before competing in the lightweight single sculls at the World Rowing Championships from 18 August.“See, we weren’t sure about dates going home.
“I said, ‘I’m in the car on my own, I can fit in three or four of you’,” Duggan said. “Fintan just looked at me and I got mortified, then, when he said, ‘I might take you up on that’.” Duggan said he asked a woman who looked to be working for the airport and was preparing for a camera shot whether the rowers had passed through yet. She said they had not, so he decided to wait and see if they did indeed need their lift.
The Mallow resident then drove his Olympic passengers back down towards Cork, stopping off at Manor Stone Service Station in Ballacolla, Co Laois. Duggan said he declined the offer from O’Donovan, McCarthy and Long to pay for his petrol.
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