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12th May 2018
09:39am BST

The three-time European Cup winner sat on The Late Late Show couch on Friday night and gave an interesting interview.
From what the Irish jersey means to him, to retirement, to the fallout for rugby in the wake of the Belfast trial, it was a fascinating 15 minutes.
Of all that has happened to him though, being snubbed by Eddie O'Sullivan still remains one of the strangest things.
"You'll have to ask Eddie if he liked me or not," Jamie Heaslip laughed when asked why he wasn't picked. "His team were going well at the time and he had his players. They had a lot of success. But it was frustrating because I thought I was good enough, he thought otherwise."It was the cold feedback which O'Sullivan is said to have handed the Leinster man that was jarring.
"I wasn't fast enough. I wasn't big enough. I wasn't strong enough," Heaslip was told. "I disagreed with him and told him so but you're not going to change the coach's mind. "He told me I also shouldn't wear white boots. That's why I wore white boots ever since then, just to prove a point. "In fairness, my dad doesn't like me wearing white boots."https://twitter.com/RTEOne/status/995049310688497664
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