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Published 15:59 27 Apr 2017 BST
Updated 15:58 28 Apr 2017 BST
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"Then I'd get up and I'd have to get milk for the cereal. You don't have to get milk for the cereal, you're going to get the Sunday papers to see what they rated you. "If the journalist gave you an eight, you'd kinda come running back to the house, onto the floor and skid on the double knees.""Lads, ye laugh all ye want," O'Gara scolded as he recalled a time both himself and his Ireland team- and room-mate Guy Easterby got 5/20. Receiving a poor rating often led to an entirely different reaction from O'Gara.
"I actually rang up one or two journalists and said 'I disagree with that'," said O'Gara.
It was a practice he gave up as he settled into his own skin as a professional rugby player.
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