Vincent Hogan salutes Munster's Kiwi flyer, Doug Howlett, prior to their Heineken Cup showdown with Northampton in The Irish Independent.
"Picked by Graham Henry to play for his province while still in Auckland Grammar School; head prefect and captain of the school athletics team; a sub-11 seconds 100 metres sprinter; scorer of two tries on his All Blacks debut; scorer of a hat-trick on his first time out in Super 12; the founder of an 'Outreach Foundation' for under-privileged kids.
And, suddenly, his mortified face was being beamed across the world, mouthing words of apology for criminal damage drunkenly inflicted on a car. So, that day of introductions in Cork pretty much leaked all formality in an instant. Anthony Horgan remembers. "There's nothing held back in a Munster squad and we were straight into him. He was absolutely hammered.
"And you could see straight away from his reaction that he was sound. Some people could be a bit bitter about that, but he just took it all on the chin."
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