THE FETING OF Brian O’Driscoll will continue in 2014 when the Irish rugby legend officially gets the Freedom of Dublin.
According the Dublin City Council, here are some of the rights O’Driscoll will enjoy from 1 January onwards:
- Bring goods into Dublin through the city gates, without paying customs duties
- Pasture sheep on common ground within the city boundaries
- Vote in municipal and parliamentary elections
Watch out for the O’Driscoll flock grazing on open ground all over D6. And, while that all sounds pretty rock n’ roll, here are a few things we hope BOD’s new honour entitles him to do.
90-second trolley dash around The Square Shopping Centre
Just don’t get distracted by cute babies like Gay Mitchell did here in 2011. Photocall Ireland/Sasko Lazarov
Tour buses must divert by your house and mention the hattrick against France in 2000
GPO, St Patrick Cathedral, O’Driscoll’s pad, then swing it around to the Guinness Storehouse. INPHO/Tom Honan
Jump the taxi line at Dublin Airport
Seriously, we once queued in front of Irish goalscoring hero John Aldridge on a frosty Sunday after a Ryanair flight from Liverpool. Photocall Ireland/Mark Stedman
Access to the Cadbury factory in Coolock whenever he gets a sweet tooth
Credit: Photocall Ireland
House parties with Michael D. up at Farmleigh
‘No, no. That couch had beer stains when we got there Mr President’. INPHO/Dan Sheridan
Allowed pay on to Dublin Bus with notes
No more fishing around for change in his rugby gear after training any more. Photocall Ireland/Salboal
A free pig every month and two comely lasses of virtue true
Good enough for Springfield’s chief of police Clancy Wiggum, good enough for BOD.
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Queue skipping for one n’ one at Leo Burdocks is now allowed
Sorry kid but come back to us when you’ve scored 46 tries for Ireland. Photocall Ireland/Laura Hutton
BOD masks for everyone!
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