Rob: Wedding is not even in top 10 best days of my life
RETIRED rugby star Rob Kearney has admitted his wedding day wasn’t the best day of his life.
The Co Louth man married Jess Redden at the five-star Trump International Hotel in Doonbeg, Co Clare, in 2021.
But speaking on the podcast Insights with Sean O’rourke, the former
Ireland international admitted: “I’m sure she won’t mind me saying this but discussing our wedding day with Jess is always… she thinks this was the best day of her life, there’s nothing that would come close to her wedding day, the best day of her life. ‘I loved it, I’d love to do it all again’, and in my own head I’m thinking, ‘Jaysus this doesn’t come into top 10 days of my life’.
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“I’ve had Heineken Cups, Grand Slams, beaten the All Blacks.
“Our wedding day doesn’t even register.”
But Rob said there was only one day that triumphed over the whole lot of those special moments, the birth of his son Bobby Brian in 2023.
He added: “And I thought nothing would ever come close to some of these big victories but the birth of your first child has made all of those sporting days so insignificant.
“Family life has become my biggest purpose.”
Opening up about his son he admitted he would be “disappointed” if he didn’t play sports.
He said: “I think it’s so important for people to have the softer skills of life I find now a lot of people take for granted.”
Opening up about his rugby career, Rob said: “If you don’t have a very thick skin there’s a chance that you won’t survive in that profession.
“And you can develop that as the years go on and there was definitely things said to me that I absolutely took to heart, and I was very offended by them but you just learn to move on and get on with it.”