Irish Rugby : Provincial Rugby : News : Brendan Lynch RIP

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Second row Paul O'Connell spoke to the assembled media on the Lions squad's first day at their training camp in Carton House. He cannot wait until the full squad is together and is hoping to be involved in the historic tour opener against the Barbarians in Hong Kong.

Brendan Lynch (aged 26), from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, was left for dead after a vehicle knocked him off his Honda SH-300 on Rome's ring road last Sunday night. He died on the way to hospital.

Brendan had played professionally for Rotherham Titans and for a team in Alghero, Sardinia, before moving to Rome, where he was playing for a local team, Capitolina.

His Irish ancestry had also enabled him to represent the Ireland Under-19s. He had recently given up professional rugby after landing a contract at the Food and Agricultural Organisation, which is based in the Italian capital.

"He had been here just a few months but he was already one of us," said Paolo Vaccari, the president of the Capitolina rugby club. "He was a great player, an exemplary professional."

Many of the Exiles Committee, as well as his contemporaries - both from the Exiles and fellow Ireland Under-19s who played alongside him - will remember him well with affection. He was a lovely, quiet man. May he rest in peace.