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Tom Farrell during an Ireland Rugby training session at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Tom Farrell during an Ireland Rugby training session at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

It has been a very special three months in the life of Tom Farrell.

At the start of August, Farrell became a dad, as he and his wife Chloe welcomed their first child, a daughter named Sophia.