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Do you remember… Eoghan McDermott’s stint as a professional athlete?
European Week of Sport 2020 at the Sport Ireland Campus, the media man recounted his brief foray into life as a professional athlete.Asked what sporting endeavour sparked his stint as an athlete, Eoghan enthused, ‘First-ever Irish ice hockey team baby, yeah!’Telling the tale of how the team came to be formed, the Love Island Australia voiceover artists shared, ‘There was an American guy called Pete Lawlor who probably would have been a professional ice hockey player in the States but he got injured, I think it was his knee.’‘And he decided to do medicine and he move to Dublin and he was [studying] in the Royal College of Surgeons.’‘He found our little ice hockey team, local Dublin team, which trained in a Des Kelly Carpets basement which