Hungary gold medalist Hubert Kos: 'I always loved going to Ireland, Tayto crisps and stuff like that'

“My father is half-Irish, half-Hungarian,” he explained then. “So I’m technically 75% Hungarian, 25% Irish.”

QUARTER IRISH: Hungary’s Hubert Kos with his gold medal after winning in the men’s 200m backstroke final. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire.

Follow these Olympic Games with any sort of passing interest and you’re pretty much guaranteed to know that Team Ireland has already outstripped its best effort medal haul with seven podium places claimed or guaranteed.

Seven, that’s the number, right?