Peter O'Mahony and wife Jessica on life after rugby, Cork and new business

The Cork couple discuss retirement, family life and transforming a shared passion for gardening into a new Irish lifestyle brand

Peter and Jessica O Mahony. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan.

Last summer, to cement the family time that retirement from rugby gave Peter and Jessica O’Mahony, they secured a mobile home in West Cork. It was a dream come true.

“We’d asked about getting a deck onto our mobile,” Jessica begins, “but we realised that no one else had decks yet. We asked the owner and he said no problem...” Peter interjects, shaking his head: “Ah, you’re not going to tell this are you?”