We’re too busy training to look for row-mance
Brothers at the World Championships where they won gold, inset OLYMPIAN brothers Gary and Paul O’donovan have revealed they’re still on the singles market and admitted they have no time for love with all their training.
The Cork duo are two of Ireland’s most eligible bachelors and won gold earlier this month at the World Rowing Championships in Bulgaria.
When questioned about their love lives, 24-year-old Paul said the pair have their sights set on the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
It’s been a busy month for the Skibbereen athlete as he also started studying medicine in University College Cork after finishing a degree in physiotherapy.
He added: “I’m back in college as well so I’m busy with that and all the training we’ve been doing all summer, we haven’t thought about the romance at all.”
Paul joked that studying to be a doctor gives him a chance to get away from his 25-year-old brother Gary.
He said: “It’s very good. It’s something else I can think about now we have a few weeks break, I’m not sitting around idle at home.
“It’s good to go in there and focus my mind a bit – I’ve always enjoyed a bit of study with the training. It gives me a
ON WHY HE CHOSE TO STUDY MEDICINE AT UNIVERSITY
break from Gary as well, I can get away from him.”
When asked if he always dreamed of being a doctor, Paul admitted he only decided on the career path while he was doing his last degree.
He said: “Not as a kid, I never really wanted to do it.
“I did physiotherapy thinking I wanted to go down the sport side of things but once I started doing the hospital placements in that, I got very interested in what the doctors were doing. I decided then to switch.”
The brothers are using their time off to encourage the public to recycle more after joining Repak’s Team Green campaign.
The initiative is trying to highlight that if everyone in Ireland recycled just one more piece of plastic every week, 250 million more items would be recycled every year.
Gary said: “Sometimes we would see stuff floating around or on the bank of the lake and we would get annoyed about it.
“Then we were approached to do this and it’s something we feel strongly about so it’s something we wanted to help out with, to try and educate people a bit more – especially kids.”
Once I started on hospital placement I got interested in what doctors were doing so I switched PAUL O’DONOVAN