Category: Archive
February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
After that, everything gets a little bit hazy, but the folklore surrounding him is far too entertaining for us to over worry about the burden of proof. As the present Irish team close in on another potential Grand Slam, the hero of the last triumph is worth revisiting.
When the train carrying the Irish team pulled into Dublin the following day, Daly was met by a glamorous woman in a sports car, carrying a precious fragment of his jersey. They drove off together and he stayed so long in her company that by the time he got back to work, he’d been sacked. With no job, he rang up Huddersfield rugby league club, who had been on his trail for a while, and turned professional for a signing bonus of