CELEBRATIONS were in order as an Ireland and Leinster rugby star got engaged to his long-time girlfriend during a sunny holiday to Portugal.
Lucy Byrne, partner of Jordan Larmour, revealed the landmark news on Instagram alongside a photo of the bride and groom to be.
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Her message was a simple one denoting the date of their engagement: “19.06.25”
The 28-year-old winger dropped down to one knee in sunny surroundings during a family holiday to Portugal.
And in the comments, fans and fellow rugby stars alike flocked to offer the congratulations and well wishes.
Cian Healy, a now former teammate of Larmour’s at Leinster, said: “Ah congrats guys! Awesome news 
enjoy the celebrations!!”
Another provincial teammate, Josh van der Flier, said: “Congrats guys ” while fellow Ireland international Tadhg Beirne said: “Congrat”
Robyn Flanagan, wife of Joey Carbery, said: “Huge congrats” and Elaine Porter, wife of Ireland and Leinster ace Andrew, called it the “best news ever”.
While Larmour and his family was in celebratory mood, this past weekend was more of a setback variety for some of his Ireland teammates.
Bundee Aki, Tadhg Beirne, Finlay Bealham, Ronan Kelleher, Tadhg Furlong, and Mack Hansen were all part of a Lions side that lost to Argentina on Friday.
Andy Farrell‘s side suffered a 28-24 defeat in Dublin in the final preparation for their tour of Australia.
And Farrell was not willing to give himself or the squad a free pass because of a lack of time together with 13 players – 10 of them from Leinster – not considered because they were in club action last weekend.
On his own performance, Farrell said: “Obviously not good enough. I always take full responsibility, that’s my role.
“It doesn’t matter what department, I’m in charge of the job lot so it obviously wasn’t good enough and I need to do better.
“We made it a tough game, didn’t we?
“Obviously the first and appropriate thing to say is congratulations to Argentina, they thoroughly deserved to win the Test match.
“They capitalised very well on the back of quite a few errors from us. Congratulations to them. I’m sure that’s a huge moment in Argentinean history.
“But the whole story of the game is that we compounded too many errors. We need to do better than that.
“The Lions players, good players coming together, of course we ask a lot of them, and maybe we put too much pressure on the side because it certainly looked like we were a little bit disconnected at times.
“Look, we’ll review, and then we need to make sure that we get something positive from that because it’s all about how we move forward.
“You can single out one thing but it’s not just one thing, it’s a compounding of quite a few bits. The amount of balls that we threw blindly, either to the opposition or the floor, is probably a stand-out.
“If you combine that with the kicking game and the aerial battle and what is disappointing is those scraps on the floor from that type of battle, it always seemed to go to Argentina so there’s a bit of fight and hunger from them that we can’t accept.
“Then you combine stuff at the breakdown, the lineout or whatever, and it’s too much.
“We’re not sugar-coating anything because we need to be honest because if we’re not honest how do we gain trust with each other. We have to say it as it is.
“We expected to do better but we’re at where we’re at and we need to deal with that.”
