Former Ulster and Ireland prop earned an unlikely call-up 12 years ago – it’s only now that he can fully appreciate how much it actually means to him
Tom Court during his game for the Lions against the Rebels in June 2013.
It seems short-sighted to reduce Tom Court’s 44 years to just one engaging yarn when so many colourful tales have shaped his journey to this point.
Like how his maternal Irish bloodline ended up on the other side of the world in the first place. How his Catholic grandfather, Patrick Carey, from Limerick, fought for the British Navy in World War II before moving to England with his wife from Clare, working in a brewery in Burton-on-Trent only to then up sticks once more to become a sugar cane cutter in Australia.