Padraic McKeever spent the Paris Olympics dashing between Team Ireland House on the Boulevard de Clichy in Montmartre and squeezing in events when he could. He and his team were selling Irish Olympic kit for 13 hours a day to fans who came by the Irish social HQ to watch the games, hang out, and maybe meet an Olympian. Within a few days, he realised the kit was so popular that he hadn’t brought enough stock. “The stuff for the teams and all the stuff for the corporate sponsors, and all the stuff for the retailers, the airports and everything,…

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