Ireland and Leinster star gets engaged to long-time girlfriend in Portugal as fellow aces gush over ‘best news ever'
CELEBRATIONS were in order as an Ireland and Leinster rugby star got engaged to his long-time girlfriend during a sunny holiday to Portugal.
Lucy Byrne, partner of
Jordan
Larmour, revealed the landmark
news
on
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Jordan Larmour, right, got engaged to lone-time girlfriend Lucy Byrne
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He popped the question in Portugal
Credit: Instagram/lucyybyrne
Her message was a simple one denoting the date of their engagement: "19.06.25"
The 28-year-old winger dropped down to one knee in sunny surroundings during a
family
holiday to
Portugal
.
And in the comments, fans and fellow
rugby
stars alike flocked to offer the congratulations and well wishes.
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Another provincial teammate,
Josh
van der Flier, said: "Congrats guys ❤️" while fellow
Ireland
international
Robyn Flanagan, wife of
While Larmour and his family was in celebratory mood, this past weekend was more of a setback variety for some of his Ireland teammates.
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Dublin
in the final preparation for their tour of
Australia
.
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On his own performance, Farrell said: 'Obviously not good enough. I always take full responsibility, that's my role.
'It doesn't matter what department, I'm in charge of the job lot so it obviously wasn't good enough and I need to do better.
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'We made it a tough game, didn't we?
'Obviously the first and appropriate thing to say is congratulations to
'They capitalised very well on the back of quite a few errors from us. Congratulations to them. I'm sure that's a huge moment in Argentinean history.
'But the whole story of the game is that we compounded too many errors. We need to do better than that.
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'The Lions players, good players coming together, of course we ask a lot of them, and maybe we put too much pressure on the side because it certainly looked like we were a little bit disconnected at times.
'Look, we'll review, and then we need to make sure that we get something positive from that because it's all about how we move forward.
'You can single out one thing but it's not just one thing, it's a compounding of quite a few bits. The amount of balls that we threw blindly, either to the opposition or the floor, is probably a stand-out.
'If you combine that with the kicking game and the aerial battle and what is disappointing is those scraps on the floor from that type of battle, it always seemed to go to Argentina so there's a bit of fight and hunger from them that we can't accept.
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'Then you combine stuff at the breakdown, the lineout or whatever, and it's too much.
'We're not sugar-coating anything because we need to be honest because if we're not honest how do we gain trust with each other. We have to say it as it is.
'We expected to do better but we're at where we're at and we need to deal with that.'
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