No secret recipe to O'Donovan brothers’ Olympics success

The granny credited by Ireland’s Olympic rowing heroes for fuelling them through tough winter training sessions has dismissed rumours of a secret recipe.

“The secret is there is no secret,” Gary and Paul O’Donovan’s grandmother, Mary Doab, insisted yesterday.

Gary has been living with his grandmother in Ballincollig, Co Cork, for the last four years while studying at CIT while Paul moved in last year as they both stepped up Olympic training at the National Rowing Centre in Farran, a few miles west of the town.