Ronan O’Gara: When the family is happy and the project is right, the rest is easy
I wanted to commit the next three years to La Rochelle, because we are just getting started with this project, writes Ronan O'Gara. Picture: Dave Winter
Hell of a day for the head Wednesday. A round of media interviews with Le Parisien, L’Equipe, RMC radio et al. Thinking your way through a minefield of questions about your future, about Leinster, about the race for the Bouclier is taxing enough in English but transferring the entire thought process to French can feel gruelling. All my day-to-day communications are in the native tongue now. It’s sometimes soothing to hear the soft lilt of a Cork man almost speaking English.
That’s why you get tired. Think in English, translate to French but deliver in real time. Coaching in English sometime in the future will be a lot easier.
