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Published 16:56 19 May 2017 BST
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"Paul O'Connell, what a gent. He was one of the guys who would come up to me and spend time. "He would make time for me on the plays. I built up a lot of trust for him over those first couple of weeks. "So we were having a meal at Fitzpatrick's Hotel and there was some sauce that nobody knew what it was. Paulie says to me, 'See what that sauce is there, Kev.' "I pick up a huge, big spoon of it and he says, 'Give it a smell there.' "I smell the spoon and he gave it a slap. The sauce covered my entire face. I looked at him and my heart broken. Like, I thought you were nice! And the entire room was laughing at me."Welcoming and friendly, with a darkly comic streak. Perhaps O'Connell was really helping McLaughlin settle in by embarrassing him, showing him the worst that could happen and letting him see it wasn't so bad after all. Or perhaps he was just a sly fecker!
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