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24th June 2017
08:00am BST

"Dan Leavy got heck of a shock. I said, 'You need to grab that jersey off Pete. Pete, you grab number six off CJ and CJ, you grab eight off Jamie because Jamie pulled his upper hamstring unable to play'."And so the course of history changed. Heaslip is recuperating after a March operation while O'Mahony is now leading the Lions. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVoKOcDAPVO/?taken-by=simonzebo The Cork native was superb in victories over Crusaders and the Maori All Blacks but, until last Saturday, few expected O'Mahony would be asked to lead the Lions at Eden Park. Such was the lateness of the captaincy call that O'Mahony, as he told Sky Sports, didn't even have a chance to let Jessica Moloney, his girlfriend, know. He commented:
"I got a bit of stick from the missus. I went straight into a meeting after [I was made captain] so some of the other lads knew what the story was and she got it off someone else. She wasn't overly impressed."We have no doubt Jessica let him away with it after making him sweat for a while. Another tough challenge negotiated but much, much bigger ones await.
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