{"id":338736,"date":"2026-02-15T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/338736\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:07:10","slug":"tommy-bowe-being-bored-is-my-biggest-fear-since-i-quit-rugby-i-wont-get-that-buzz-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/338736\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Bowe: \u2018Being bored is my biggest fear since I quit rugby\u2026 I won\u2019t get that buzz back\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">\nIreland legend, presenter, dad and businessman on the thrill of his day job and the pressure to be perfect\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rugby legend and Ireland AM presenter Tommy Bowe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SN TOMMY BOWE 1SH.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)\">Rugby legend and Ireland AM presenter Tommy Bowe<\/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)\">\u2018We all make a tit of ourselves. Who doesn\u2019t?\u201d laughs Tommy Bowe, referring to his infamous faux pas about author S\u00e9amus O\u2019Reilly and his 10 siblings, made live on Ireland AM in 2021. It\u2019s rare to meet a rugby legend so willing to poke fun at himself.<\/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)\">\u201cI make mistakes all the time,\u201d he says. \u201cI was involved in a social media company years ago and it completely bombed. I got involved in a schoolboy All-Ireland rugby tournament and that didn\u2019t work either.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland legend, presenter, dad and businessman on the thrill of his day job and the pressure to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4747,18,117,19,67397,17,34851],"class_list":{"0":"post-338736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barry-egan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-international-rugby","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-virgin-media-television"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116075039640963399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338736","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=338736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}