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Published 10:16 8 Apr 2022 BST
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"From starting off at Ballon Rathoe in the Community Games to go on to the rugby club in Tullow, and on to playing with the Lions in 2013 and, in New Zealand, 2017. I'm very happy with what I've given, and sacrificed, in my career to got where I got and, hopefully, put some smiles on people's faces." "My best games... I was probably on fire at the 2011 World Cup but, at the World Cup in 2015... I know I was banned after it, but that game against France was one of my best games in an Ireland shirt. "I played New Zealand, in 2013, the time we got beaten in the 84th minute. That was another favourite of mine, until we lost [the quarter final to Argentina]. Those are the games that stand out to me."2013 against New Zealand and 2015 against France. One loss and one victory, albeit with a ban for seeing to Pascal Papé in an early clash. Objectively speaking, O'Brien was brilliant in both games. His proudest Lions memory, from the winning tour to Australia in 2013 and the drawn Test Series with the All Blacks in 2017, was finishing off a superb team try at Eden Park in the First Test against New Zealand. When you go closer to home, he is of course proud of the achievements with Leinster, and the personal accolades, but prouder still of being able to represent Tullow and Carlow on the world stage. The biggest thing he will miss, once he does hang it up in the summer? "The changing room, after a win. Everything you've done during the week to get yourself to that moment, you've succeeded in... being there with all your brothers, and the lads you've soldiered with - and all the craic that comes with it - that's what I'll remember."
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