TOMMY BOWE SHOE LAUNCH

Last Saturday, 6th October, Tommy Bowe visited the Replay Menswear store in Newbridge to promote his Tommy Bowe shoes collection. The fans formed an orderly line out outside REPLAY store in White Water shopping centre from the moment the centre opened…… die-hard fans or what!! And not all the typical dads and sons rugby crew, ohhhhh no Tommy is fast becoming the pin up of the rugby world, so as you can imagine there was a scattering of young(and some not so young) girls, patiently waiting to get a picture and a kiss from the Ulster player.

Now, I'm not huge into my rugby, and I'm ashamed to say it, but before last week, I wouldn't have been able to pick Tommy out, in a line up, so when he arrived into the back of the store, I was pleasantly surprised. Okay, obviously, he a good looking lad, but he is a really nice guy too. Getting straight to work, taking pictures with two little boys who had to dash off to football training.

 

When the doors opened, the crowds flooded in….mainly giggling, as a herd of girls had appeared from somewhere, and were applying lippie and fixing their hair in great anticipation of meeting the 28 year old Ulster naïve, who signed everything from posters, to phone covers (which I thought was a fairly clever idea, by all involved….!!) He took picture after picture, and handed out sweets from  the token Christmas tin of Roses chocolates, for over one hour without getting a cramp in his face from smiling……professional!!! Then, as quick as he arrived, he was gone, but not before I grabbed a sneaky picture and bit of banter out of him!!! Off to do it all again in another shopping centre.

His third range of shoes for Llyod & Pryce, is available in store at REPLAY Menswear Whitewater shopping centre, or online at NoPolka.com