‘Can't beat Barry's Tea' – Mack Hansen stuns fans with retro Cork GAA outfit as rugby ace swaps sports
MACK Hansen's always comes across as a free spirit - so it was no surprise to see him adopt the Rebel County when it comes to GAA.
Of course the Aussie-born winger does have legitimate grounds to be a Cork fan since
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The Connacht Rugby star was in attendance at a sold-out Pairc Ui Chaoimh over the weekend
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Outside the revamped stadium which now bears the name of sponsors SuperValu
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Sadly Connacht look set to miss out on the URC play-offs as they're six points outside the top eight with only two rounds of fixtures to go
But nonetheless it was still a bit of a jarring sight seeing the rugby international in GAA gear - from the 1990s no less.
Donning the jersey most associated with the generation of Colin Corkery, Brian Corcoran and Larry Tompkins, he enjoyed pints with friends prior to
Recapping the trip to Leeside as a whole, the 27-year-old alluded to the county's quintessentially Irish sponsor at the time.
He captioned a few photos: "Can't beat Barry's Tea."
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It didn't take long for the official Barry's Tea Instagram account to respond to the random shout-out.
Their reply stated simply: "Love the jersey!"
Plenty of his Cork followers also lapped up seeing him in red as a move to
Tim Lynch hailed: "Welcome home kid." Meanwhile Luke Herlihy pondered: Hon the Rebels, any chance of coming to Munster?"
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The Munster Hurling Championship contest didn't end up living up to its pre-match billing though.
That was largely down to the Premier being reduced to 14 men within seconds of throw-in after teen Darragh McCarthy was sent off for striking out at Sean O'Donoghue.
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The final scoreline of 4-27 to 0-24 possibly didn't even fully reflect the extent of the home side's dominance since Pat Ryan's charges seemed to be on autopilot for much of the second half as they'd amassed a huge lead by half-time.
Afterwards Ryan emphasized: 'I think in the Munster Championship it doesn't matter how you win, as long as you win — that's the key.
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"Everyone wants you to play champagne hurling and wants you to score goals and all of that.
'Getting over the line and winning matches, we couldn't do it above in Ennis the last day, we did it a bit better today.
'I often say about us, we can only go at one speed and that's flat out.
"We can't be in third or fourth gear, it's not the way we play. We have to be in fifth gear.
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'We took our eye off the ball in certain aspects and didn't move the ball in quickly enough and gave them too many easy short puckouts, which didn't help us in any way.
'Getting the two points was all we came down here to do and we're delighted we got them.'
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Nine points ahead in their
Ryan continued: 'As I've said all along, you can't win games in Munster with only 14 fellas on the field. It's just impossible, teams are too good, so we should have been winning that game.
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'We were disappointed with a couple of fallow periods in the second half again. That's something we'll look at with our analysis team, why did that happen?'
In their analysis, Tipp will lament their failure to avail of several first-half goal opportunities.
Craig Morgan and Sam O'Farrell forced saves from Patrick Collins. Forde also saw a 20-metre free kept out by Eoin Downey.
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