Ronan kicks off portraits initiative

He’s kicked a record number of penalty kicks, drop kicks and conversions over the bar. But Irish rugby legend Ronan O’Gara, 36, hit the side of a bar yesterday as a very special photographic exhibition was unveiled across Cork City.

Ireland’s most-capped player and the all-time highest points scorer for both Munster and Ireland had a wry smile as a giant portrait of him was unfurled on the front wall of the Sextant pub on Albert Quay as part of the Faces of Cork exhibition.

It is one of 10 giant portraits that will be installed on landmark city buildings for display as part of a major fundraising initiative for the Haiti house-building charity, Haven, and Marymount Hospice.