You can take Tadhg Furlong out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of Tadhg Furlong.
Furlong is set to start for Leinster in their Champions Cup group game against Montpellier at the RDS on Friday. A win for the Blues will guarantee their safe passage into the quarter-finals.
Ahead of the game, the Wexford prop gave a lighthearted interview with Sky Sports in which he talked about everything from his rural background to what he brings with him on away trips. As we’ve come to expect from Campile man, he used the opportunity to showcase that patented sense of humour we’ve all come to adore.
“Away trips I bring them big suitcases, you know them wheely ones? Most lads just bring a bag pack with nothing in it. I have an extension cord so I can get my phone next to my bed and everything. It’s weird.”
Furlong’s not a light traveler at all, admitting that that he even packs his pillow for away games. He backed up the bizarre habit by noting the ‘consistency of sleep’s important.’ However, he then completely undermined everything by confessing he would bring his bed if he could.
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The highlight of the interview may very well have been Furlong’s anecdote about telling Leinster head coach Leo Cullen a porky about his farming background in rural Wexford.
“Made up a story that I’m not a truffle farmer, I’m a truffle farmer’s son, and that I had three pigs that would go out into the Wexford, I suppose, forestry and snuff out for truffles.”
“Actually, believe it or not I had Leo Cullen on the hook for a while.”
Tadhg “The Truffle Farmer’s Son” Furlong? Hell of a nickname, rolls right off the tongue.
WATCH: Leinster prop Tadhg Furlong on his Wexford roots, travel habits and Lions ambitions: https://t.co/gcoSgx4wA0 https://t.co/ii43Ibcb9P
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