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Published 01:02 15 Oct 2023 BST
Updated 01:08 15 Oct 2023 BST
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"Well... Thank you. Eh... yeah. How can you be prouder to be Irish when you see what's happened over the last six weeks really? We get behind the team like no other, it's incredible and it's not wasted on us. "That's why it is so hard to take really, that we didn't give them another couple of weekends. But, as Faz said, it's small margins. That's sport; that's life. "This group will bounce back. They're an incredible group, led by the man beside me. The best group I have ever been a part of, bar none. These guys they will go on and achieve great things, and I'll be sitting in the stand, having a pint like you lads.""Shouting at them," joked Farrell. "That's what he'll be doing." It was as Farrell made that remark that the finality of it all seemed to hit Sexton. He put a hand over his face as he sniffed back the tears and rubbed his eyes. [caption id="attachment_294109" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
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This is the end for Johnny Sexton.
It is not the end he wanted, but the curtain has come down after a quite incredible career.
The man himself put it better than we could when he observed, "You've got to work hard for fairytale endings and we didn't get it but that's life."
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