A chat with Caelan Doris reveals the impressive qualities and ambitions of Joe McCarthy, a young rugby player making waves in Irish rugby.
It is nearing the end of a Caelan Doris chat, with ourselves and a group of journalists, when someone brings up Joe McCarthy. The 25-year-old breaks into a big grin."Yeah, he's a great character. We had different groups on the team bus in France for our journeys and he was on"Joe is this bubbly, happy-go-lucky sort of a character, but he also works extremely hard and has very high ambitions and aspirations for himself, and has the plan on how to get there.
You see him diligently working his way towards that and see the improvements he's making. He's been very impressive, has a good head on his shoulders, as well as being great craic." Having been born in New York, Joe McCarthy played his schools rugby with Willow Park and then Blackrock, before going on to represent Trinity College, like teammate Ryan Baird. He first got some national attention with the Ireland U20s in a 2020 Six Nations campaign that was cut short at three games due to the Covid pandemi
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