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Published 15:54 30 Mar 2017 BST
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"You have to down a drink and sing a song... I sang the Fresh Prince of Bel Air song as I knew I'd remember the words." He continued, "As the night goes on, you're getting drunker and drunker, and you have the likes of Ronan O'Gara coming up to you with a pint glass of red wine. He drinks a pint of wine, you drink a pint of wine and next minute someone else is walking up to you with a drink. It can be a long night or a very, very short night."
For McLaughlin, his initiation came not long after he made his debut against Italy in 2010. The former Leinster flanker travelled to Paris as back-up to Ferris for a Six Nations date with France.
Ferris ended up playing the game but the Irish players had not forgotten about his initiation. McLaughlin commented:
"I had plans for a lovely Autumn week in Paris and didn't see it coming at all... Ferris had a couple of mates for his initiation but I was flying solo. "We lost the game and didn't play particularly well so I thought there was no way they would do it that night. And then ROG [O'Gara] tipped my on the shoulder. "I turned around and he had a pint of something in his hand. Well, two pints of something. He knocked one back, winked at me and handed me the other. I knocked it back."McLaughlin jokes that he started off feeling pretty confident about making it through the night in one piece but all that changed when he bumped into French hooker William Servat and a "bowl" of mint apértif called Pastis. "It all went downhill from there," he remarked.
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