Dominic Casey helped the O'Donovans go from messers to masters

The low-profile coach credited as the driving force behind the O’Donovans’ silver medal success once banned Gary from Skibbereen Rowing Club for a week.

Because, as anyone who has enjoyed the brothers’ Rio interviews with RTÉ’s Joe Stack won’t have trouble believing, the pair tended to be messers, at times acting the jennet on the Ilen River.

And once Gary and their friend Diarmuid O’Driscoll pushed even the considerable patience of Dominic Casey, the club’s legendary coach, too far.