Walking the walk

IT’LL be a pub quiz staple for decades: name the man who scored 38 points in his first two games at Croke Park. Ronan O’Gara spoke to Michael Moynihan about the pressure of the last three weeks.

RONAN O’GARA is, by a rough estimate, about fifteen feet tall in the photograph.

You’re probably familiar with the image — from a billboard advertising an energy drink — and for some of the pressure games O’Gara has played in the last year, you’d imagine a man would in fact need shoulders eight feet across to cope.