CAELAN DORIS was wowing people in Ireland long before his gobsmacking performance against France in the Six Nations. But the relentless power of what he delivered against the French, the ball-carrying, offloading majesty of it, shot him up the pecking order on the list of the world’s great players.
His story is a little different. From the village of Lacken on the north Mayo coast, he went to a primary school of 35 kids and was in a class with just one other child. Parents Rachel and Chris are psychotherapists. Chris is also an artist. Brother Rian lives in LA and owns a $20m company operating in the field of neuroscience that has Deloitte, Goldman Sachs and the US Navy as clients. They’re interesting people.
Everybody you talk to about the Ireland No 8 will tell you about his intelligence and how normal he is in his increasingly abnormal world. He suffered a brief, but concerning, concussion injury and has spoken bravely about it. That
