Irish Professional Rugby Player Comes Out As Gay

in this day and age, where words and their definitions have little meaning...

we're going to have to pics and vids in full raw action.

[quote]The Leinster scrum-half Nick McCarthy has come out as gay

These days, when someone articulates specifically that he is gay, and I don't see the INITIALS anywhere in the article, I figure he means he's gay.

r2 not much a role model if he's just going to be part of the gaytriarchy. That's even worse than the patriarchy!

Yay! Some good news!

Unless you're gay, r3, in which case Nick McCarthy is a perfect role model.

Just another uncut Mick.

r5 Sports are family friendly. It's one thing if he wants to go on telly and show his balls for cancer awareness - that would be being a good role model. it's completely another if he wants to politicize it by taking a knee in the field to say I rather like the view of my team mate's crotch from this angle.

[quote]He came out as gay.

Which, of course, simply means that he hasn't yet accepted the fact that he's actually trans.

Speaking of Irish Blokes...Newly uploaded online @ YouTube-An Irish Male TV Beauty Pageant (swimsuit competition) from 1977 broadcast on The Late Late Show w/Gay Byrne (RTÉ Television)

Scrum Half? Scrum Nasty!

He needs to strip so we can do a full body and cavity search for his pot of gold

Cute guy. It's nice gay athletes are starting to feel comfortable enough to be open about their sexuality now.

My brother and his family are all great Leinster supporters. Nick will get great support from everyone. Good to see one of the major players coming out.

R9, that video was hysterical. Thanks.

Of the pasty lot, I liked the first guy Gerard best. He and Harry were only two in good shape.

Loved that Gerard is "not a heavy drinker."

Good for him. He displays bravery to be out in such a macho sport.

God he is so tiny. I thought Rugby players are supposed to be really big. Definitely a bottom.

R16, he is a scrum half. Doesn’t need to be big.

wee lad

R6, you're just another single bitch. Move along, Missy.

Can confirm, Ireland is really very gay now. The speed of social change has been astonishing - it's gone from maybe the most conservative country in Western Europe to one of the most liberal in only 30-40 years. Not coincidentally, the power and standing of the Catholic church has imploded after huge scandals, especially regarding the Mother and Baby homes.

Good luck to Nick.

Is it true all Irish are power bottoms?

Most certainly not.

Looking at that Instagram, there seem to be quite a few pics of him with his arm round a particular blond girl, going back several years. I assume she was unceremoniously dumped a few months ago after the team were told. Ouch.

I’d eat his ass.

R15, unlike football rugby players and supporters are very tolerant, he won’t have any problems.

It's good to finally see the real face of "men who have sex with men". Breeders thought we were all Rip Taylor.

He looks like he’s a devil in bed. I guess versatile.

To the poster commenting on Nick’s size. Here is the wonderful Guinness ad which pays tribute to the great Shane Williams, height 1.70 metres. There is a similar one for Gareth Thomas.

I bet he fantasizes about bottoming for his burly teammates very often.

Irish rugby is brutal, unlike your American football. Hooray for Nick!

R16, the forwards in rugby are usually big guys...the props and hookers are built like brick sh$thouses, while the back row (locks, flankers, #8) are tall men. The backs (scrum-halves, fly-halves, centres, wings, and fullbacks are powerful, but oftentimes slimmer to weave in and out to get to the try line.

A scrum-half can be short to average. And in what R27 posted, there are guys like Shane Williams, who was a legend. Small and compact, it was magic when he played wing for Wales.

Hiss!!

Gay-Face!!

Cookie-smeller!!

Stank-sleeve!!

Hisss!!

Hisss!!!

R31, you come off as a homophobe.

He’s one of us. Show some pride and compassion.

R24, that's good to hear!

For the feet fans.

LEGS

Let Ireland enjoy it while they still can.

I was watching an episode of Graham Norton from last year, and one of his guests was Gareth Thomas, a gay Rugby player. I had never heard of him, but he was good-looking, intelligent, and funny. He was outed by the tabloid The Sunday Mirror, who not only identified him as gay, but as HIV positive. They ambushed his Dad with the news, before Thomas could even talk to his parents. Shameless behavior on their part

He’s half Scrum and half what?

Half Polish, Rose.