New Zealand excels in all kinds of sport, but no team there has the aura of the Blacks
Seven years ago, Patrick O'Donovan got a golden ticket. The ministerial junkets for St Patrick's Day were handed out, and the Limerick TD was told he'd be going to New Zealand.
"It has to be done, I believe, in five or six-year cycles, because they have to stagger Olympic cycles. But, as is the way with politics,, just as he was getting a hang of the brief, O'Donovan was shifted to another department. As part of his UEFA Pro Licence coaching course, Roy Keane had to study a team from another sport and chose to visit the All Blacks in 2008."The All Blacks have long intrigued me and I love seeing them perform the haka.
“Like if you are not the best you can be then you are not going to be the best you can be for the team. I thought that made a lot of sense. That was one of the many things about them that stayed with former Donegal captain Michael Murphy. He read everything he could about them.
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