HAVE you ever wondered what it might have been like when banquets were held in fairytale castles, and the mead flowed freely for ladies and lords of the manor? 

Among the large, gothic-style Victorian houses that line a small park tucked away amid the red-brick streets between Rathmines and Rathgar, stands the house Ulick O’Connor has lived in all his life.

At a get-to-know-you meeting with the media early last year, Jim Gavin revealed Washington Redskins’ three-time Superbowl coach Joe Gibbs was one of his biggest influences.