{"id":182102,"date":"2025-11-15T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/182102\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:33:09","slug":"i-used-to-have-a-big-want-to-fit-in-now-im-trying-to-be-more-myself-caelan-doris-on-embracing-his-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/182102\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I used to have a big want to fit in, now I\u2019m trying to be more myself\u2019 \u2013 Caelan Doris on embracing his differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ireland captain speaks about his an \u2018intense\u2019 week of self-reflection in California, his love for Mayo, and a belief that his team will get back to their best\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caelan Doris: 'If I look back to when I was younger, there was a big want just to fit in. Knowing that my parents were different to my peers\u2019 parents, as in my parents are therapists and my dad\u2019s an artist.'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3279590.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Caelan Doris: &#8216;If I look back to when I was younger, there was a big want just to fit in. Knowing that my parents were different to my peers\u2019 parents, as in my parents are therapists and my dad\u2019s an artist.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Before he made his comeback against New Zealand, Caelan Doris\u2019s phone pinged with a message from his father Chris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Attached was a video from a farmer who lives on the other side of Lacken, the village in rural north Mayo where the Ireland captain grew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Ireland captain speaks about his an \u2018intense\u2019 week of self-reflection in California, his love for Mayo, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[53479,18,19,17,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-182102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-caelan-doris","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115553973440768367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}