‘Wee’ Paddy Barnes as soon as dropped a not-so-small Irish rugby worldwide so heavy he threw up.
Again in 2012 quite a few the Excessive Efficiency squad joined the Irish Rugby Squad for some coaching at Carton Home.
The likes of Olympic medal winners Barnes, Kenneth Egan and Michael Conlan had been among the many boxers had been current alongside Declan Kidney’s Irish staff.
Reminiscing in regards to the periods on the Free State podcast to Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning, Johnny Sexton recalled an incident had been two-time Olympic bronze medal winner, Barnes did some harm.
The Belfast favorite landed a physique shot mid-shadow-boxing prompting an unnamed rugby star to fall to the ground and throw up.
“We had the Olympic boxing staff are available in and we’d been out the night time earlier than, kind of staff bonding two weeks out out from a giant worldwide,” defined Sexton.
“We’d been out and initially their coach was shocked. They wouldn’t drink for a 12 months, six months, two years in all probability earlier than an Olympic occasion, however he mentioned to us ‘we’d love to indicate you a bit of coaching’.
“Paddy Barnes was there, (Michael) Conlan, Katie Taylor wasn’t there on the day, however they’d like in all probability ten boxers there so anyway they obtained ten volunteers from the rugby staff to go in and begin doing this.
“Just a few of the lads had been out the night time earlier than, however then they had been shadow boxing and Paddy Barnes hit one of many lads within the guts and he spewed in every single place. It was completely good.”
