Stars line out as Bull launches book in Limerick

Mick Galwey, his old sparring partner with Shannon, Munster and Ireland, last night launched John Hayes’s autobiography “The Bull” in the Sin Bin, the Limerick bar owned by another former team mate and rugby legend, Peter Clohessy, who couldn’t be present because of the death earlier in the day of his father, Noel.

Among the attendance were Irish team coach Declan Kidney and a large number of Hayes’s Munster and Ireland team-mates including Ronan O’Gara, Peter Stringer, Marcus Horan, Jerry Flannery, Donncha O’Callaghan and Paul O’Connell.

The book is sure to prove a great read for the many thousands at home and abroad who grew to admire John Hayes for his durability, strength, dedication and skill from the time he first pulled on a rugby jersey with the Bruff club at the age of 16.