Driving through the gates of <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/university-college-dublin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University College Dublin</a> (UCD) brings back one or two memories. Not that I spent much time in the place when I did the Sports Man Dip course back in the day.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

Driving through the gates of University College Dublin (UCD) brings back one or two memories. Not that I spent much time in the place when I did the Sports Man Dip course back in the day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Driving through the gates of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/university-college-dublin" rel="noopener noreferrer">University College Dublin</a>&nbsp;(UCD) brings back one or two memories. Not that I spent much time in the place when I did the Sports Man Dip course back in the day.<p> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

The competition gets under way. The entrants are each told to remove a sock and put it in the pint glass in front of them

Described by George Hook as the greatest Irish player never to make it and described by everyone else who knows him as a shallow, self-obsessed idiot.

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The competition gets under way. The entrants are each told to remove a sock and put it in the pint glass in front of them

The competition gets under way. The entrants are each told to remove a sock and put it in the pint glass in front of them