JOSH VAN der Flier’s daily school routine took him in the front door of Wesley College in Dublin and past the wall that honoured all the sporting internationals the school had produced; the Olympians, the hockey players, the sailors, the rugby players, of which there were only two since its formation in 1895 – Herbert Aston from 1908 and Eric Miller from 1997.
He always wanted the family name up on that sporting honours board and he got his wish, but not in the way he imagined. In 2011, at the age of 14, his younger sister Julie played a one-day cricket International for Ireland against Pakistan.
“For my last two years in school I walked past the board and saw Julie’s name up there and that was a huge motivation for me. Not that I ever thought I’d be up there with her.”
Not only is he up there on the honours board at Wesley, he’s now, at 29, among the most lauded
