Ireland’s Philip Doyle (L) and Daire Lynch with their bronze medals in the awards ceremony after the men’s double sculls at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
Christmas dinner had to be fixed around his training. That’s the first thing Niall Lynch, father of Olympic medallist Daire, wants you to know.
The 26-year-old rower from Clonmel actually had a rest day scheduled on December 25, but as Ireland’s latest Olympic medallist explained in Paris yesterday afternoon, with a precious chunk of bronze hanging around his neck, “I feel bad if I don’t train.”
