Rory O’Carroll with Jim Gavin during their time with the Dublin footballers. Photo: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
These conversations with a current or, ever increasingly now, a past player often coincide with a product push. Rory O’Carroll is promoting a school.
But then he has always stood apart, one who got behind causes from concussion in sport to a ‘yes’ vote in the marriage equality referendum and Irish sporting figures’ support for Palestine.