My Childhood with Gordon D'Arcy: I found trouble very easily, and trouble found me

D’Arcy spent his early childhood in Ferns, a rural village in Co Wexford

Gordan D'Arcy

Gordon D'Arcy and his mother Peggy were recently watching his three young children playing with the family dog. When the retired rugby player marvelled at the children’s energy levels, his mother laughed and told him he was “worse than all of them combined”.

“I think I was a hurricane,” he says.