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Ireland captain speaks about his an ‘intense’ week of self-reflection in California, his love for Mayo, and a belief that his team will get back to their best

Caelan Doris: 'If I look back to when I was younger, there was a big want just to fit in. Knowing that my parents were different to my peers’ parents, as in my parents are therapists and my dad’s an artist.'

Caelan Doris: ‘If I look back to when I was younger, there was a big want just to fit in. Knowing that my parents were different to my peers’ parents, as in my parents are therapists and my dad’s an artist.’

Before he made his comeback against New Zealand, Caelan Doris’s phone pinged with a message from his father Chris.

Attached was a video from a farmer who lives on the other side of Lacken, the village in rural north Mayo where the Ireland captain grew up.