The long road back

AUTUMN four years ago and Victor Costello had good reason to be pleased. Didn’t he? National senior shot-putt champion at 16, Olympian at 21, before progress to the Irish rugby team. Twenty two caps before fading from the international scene.

Wed, 05 Mar, 2003 - 00:00
Diarmuid O’Flynn

But Costello was brooding. He wasn't looking back, he was looking forward, to a rugby World Cup just about to start in these islands, without his considerable presence in the green No 8 shirt.

Deeply unhappy.

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